Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Michael Masutha | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office: | Minister of Justice and Correctional Services |
President: | Jacob Zuma Cyril Ramaphosa |
Term Start: | 26 May 2014 |
Term End: | 30 May 2019 |
Predecessor: | Jeff Radebe |
Successor: | Ronald Lamola |
Office1: | Deputy Minister of Science and Technology |
Minister1: | Derek Hanekom |
Term Start1: | 9 July 2013 |
Term End1: | 25 May 2014 |
Predecessor1: | Derek Hanekom |
Successor1: | Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi |
Birth Place: | Valdezia, South Africa |
Party: | African National Congress |
Tshililo Michael Masutha is a South African advocate and retired politician. He was born in Valdezia in 1965 in Northern Transvaal, which is now Limpopo province, in South Africa. He is the former Minister of Justice and Correctional Services.[1] Before becoming MP in 1999, he served as a human rights lawyer. He served as the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology from 2013 to 2014. Born with a visual disability,[2] he was the second minister with a disability to be appointed to Jacob Zuma's cabinet. He founded Northern Transvaal Association for the Blind in 1989.[3]