Dina Pule

Dina Deliwe Pule (born 19 July 1960) is a South African politician who has been the Deputy Secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC) Women's League since July 2023. Before that, she was Minister of Communications under President Jacob Zuma from October 2011 to July 2013, but she was fired during a parliamentary inquiry into allegations that she had contravened the parliamentary code of conduct. The allegations were ultimately substantiated by Parliament's Joint Committee on Ethics and Members' Interests and by the Public Protector, leading Parliament to suspend and reprimand Pule.

Born in Mpumalanga, Pule first held public office as a Member of the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature for a single term between 2004 and 2009. During that period, she held several portfolios as a Member of the Executive Council under former Premier Thabang Makwetla. After her election to the National Assembly in 2009, she served under Zuma as Deputy Minister of Communications from 2009 to 2010 and Deputy Minister in the Presidency for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation from 2010 to 2011, before being appointed to Zuma's cabinet in 2011. After the misconduct finding against her in August 2013, Pule declined to stand for re-election as an ordinary Member of Parliament in the 2014 general election.

At the ANC's 55th National Conference in December 2022, Pule was elected to a five-year term as a member of the ANC National Executive Committee. She previously served on the committee between 2007 and 2012. She was elected to her ANC Women's League office in July 2023.