Faith Muthambi

Azwihangwisi Faith Muthambi (born 19 February 1974) is a South African politician who was the Minister of Public Service and Administration and Minister of Communications under President Jacob Zuma. She represented the African National Congress in the National Assembly from May 2009 to November 2022, and she has been a member of the party's National Executive Committee since December 2017.

Muthambi is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa and formerly held various positions in the civil service in Limpopo, most proximately as the municipal manager of Makhado Local Municipality from 2004 to 2009. She joined the National Assembly in the 2009 general election and spent five years as a backbencher before she was appointed as Minister of Communications in Zuma's second-term cabinet. She held that office between May 2014 and March 2017, and later she was Minister of Public Service and Administration from March 2017 to February 2018. Her tenure as a minister was controversial due to her apparent links to the Gupta family, and the Zondo Commission labelled her "a Gupta minister" and referred her for prosecution on corruption charges.

After she was sacked from the cabinet by President Cyril Ramaphosa in February 2018, Muthambi served stints as chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs and Portfolio Committee on Environment, Forestry and Fisheries. She resigned from Parliament on 28 November 2022.