Lynne Brown (born 26 September 1961) is a South African politician who is a former Minister of Public Enterprises and former Premier of the Western Cape Province.

She stood as the ANC's candidate as Mayor of Cape Town in 1999 and served as provincial Minister (MEC) for finance, economic development and tourism until her elevation to the office of Premier in 2008.

The ANC lost control of the province in the 2009 general election with the Democratic Alliance garnering 22 of the 42 seats in the Provincial Parliament.

[5] She denied having read the Gupta emails despite receiving them from Natasha Mazzone,[6] and denied that President Zuma had called her after meeting Zola Tsotsi (Eskom Chairman at the time), a meeting that led to the suspension of senior executives Tshediso Matona, Dan Marokane, Tsholofelo Molefe and Matshela Koko.

"[7][8] In February 2018 she was removed from the Cabinet of President Cyril Ramaphosa,[9] being succeeded by Pravin Gordhan and subsequently resigning as an ANC member of parliament.

Her actions were found to have culminated in the appointment of several persons with conflicts of interests and associations with Salim Essa and the Gupta family, and many with no prior experience as directors of any state-owned enterprise.

The Zondo Commission also found that Brown's actions were in contradiction to her testimony, in that she had in fact failed to follow the DPE's processes and recommendations and that she ultimately merely circulated an advertisement in newspapers inviting anyone to apply for nomination to the Board.