Sisisi Tolashe

Nokuzola Gladys Tolashe (born 21 December 1959), also known as Sisisi "Sisi" Tolashe, is a South African politician from the Eastern Cape. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), she has been the Minister of Social Development since June 2024 and the president of the ANC Women's League since July 2023.

Tolashe was a member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature between 2001 and 2008, and she rose to national political prominence as the secretary-general of the ANC Women's League under President Angie Motshekga. She was secretary-general from July 2008 until she was ousted in August 2015. She went on to serve as a backbencher in the National Assembly from 2016 to 2018 and then as mayor of the Eastern Cape's Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality from 2018 to 2019. She returned to the National Assembly in the 2019 general election and was appointed to the national executive by President Cyril Ramaphosa in March 2023, first as Deputy Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities and then, after the 2024 general election, as Minister of Social Development.

Tolashe has been a member of the ANC National Executive Committee since December 2022, and she previously served in the committee between 2007 and 2017.