Firoz Cachalia

Firoz Cachalia
Cachalia in 2025
Minister of Police
Acting
Assumed office
13 July 2025
PresidentCyril Ramaphosa
MinisterSenzo Mchunu (suspended)
Member of the Gauteng Executive Council for Economic Development
In office
May 2009 – November 2010
PremierNomvula Mokonyane
Succeeded byQedani Mahlangu
Member of the Gauteng Executive Council for Community Safety
In office
April 2004 – May 2009
Premier
Preceded byNomvula Mokonyane (for Safety and Community Liaison)
Succeeded byKhabisi Mosunkutu
Personal details
Born (1958-07-22) 22 July 1958
PartyAfrican National Congress
Other political
affiliations
South African Communist Party
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Firoz Cachalia (born 22 July 1958) is a South African lawyer and politician who is the current acting Minister of Police. He previously served as a Member of the Gauteng Executive Council from 2004 to 2010. Formerly an anti-apartheid activist in the Transvaal, he first joined the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in 1994, representing the African National Congress, and he served as Speaker of the provincial legislature from 1999 to 2004. After he left the provincial government he was appointed as a law professor at Wits University and, from 2022, as the chairperson of the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council.