Leon Amos Schreiber (born 11 September 1988) is a South African writer and politician who is currently serving as Minister of Home Affairs since 3 July 2024.

Born on 11 September 1988 in Piketberg,[2] Schreiber grew up in Kleinzee, a small town in the Namakwa District of the Northern Cape Province.

Ranked eighth on the party's regional list in the Western Cape constituency, he was elected to a seat in the National Assembly, the lower house of the South African Parliament.

[13][14] He retained that position throughout the Sixth Parliament, gaining reappointment in the shadow cabinet of Maimane's successor, John Steenhuisen, in 2020.

[23][24] Schreiber said that, based on the DA's analysis of the minutes, cadre deployment had continued "unabated" under the incumbent President, Cyril Ramaphosa.

[26] However, later the same month, the Pretoria High Court dismissed a related application by the DA to have the ANC's cadre deployment policy declared unconstitutional.

[33] The SAHRC complaint stimulated extensive public debate, with Schreiber's critics accusing him of "cheap politicking",[34] of needlessly polarising rhetoric,[35] of resorting to racist dog whistles,[36] and of reinforcing a false dichotomy between anti-racism and the promotion of Afrikaans.

[12] On 30 June, in line with a coalition agreement between the DA and ANC, President Ramaphosa announced that he is to be appointed the cabinet as Minister of Home Affairs.

[41] In the aftermath of the cabinet announcement, there were false reports that Schreiber was born in Zimbabwe, stemming from the circulation on social media of a vandalised Wikipedia article about him.

[3] After he was sworn in as minister on 3 July 2024,[1] Schreiber said that his initial priority in the Department of Home Affairs would be "getting the basics right", reducing backlogs through technological interventions and business process reforms.