Firoz Cachalia
Firoz Cachalia | |
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Cachalia in 2025 | |
| Minister of Police | |
Acting | |
| Assumed office 13 July 2025 | |
| President | Cyril Ramaphosa |
| Minister | Senzo Mchunu (suspended) |
| Member of the Gauteng Executive Council for Economic Development | |
| In office May 2009 – November 2010 | |
| Premier | Nomvula Mokonyane |
| Succeeded by | Qedani Mahlangu |
| Member of the Gauteng Executive Council for Community Safety | |
| In office April 2004 – May 2009 | |
| Premier | |
| Preceded by | Nomvula Mokonyane (for Safety and Community Liaison) |
| Succeeded by | Khabisi Mosunkutu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 July 1958 |
| Party | African 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.