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Minister of Police

Executive branch of government · National government

Minister of Police is an entity described in industry reference data. It is not linked to any risk indications in our database, and it has not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Position				[sources]
Name	Minister of Police				[sources]
Country	South Africa				[sources]
Inception date	1989-08-16				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q16744852				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-15	Last processed	2026-03-25	First seen	2023-09-08

Relationships

Position holders
Holder	Start date	End date
Bheki Cele PEP	2019-05-29	2024-06-19

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Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons272,227

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories340,703

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

South Africa National and Provincial Legislators1,815

Current members of the National Assembly, National Council of Provinces, and provincial legislatures and executives in South Africa.

South Africa · PMG · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,334

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: za-pmg-40b87cadcecc59a34f1029b0b23f5f359bece53b · us-cia-12aea4fdc521e7bc952615ce578508d0b19b60d8

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