Tokozile Xasa (born 28 April 1965) is a South African politician who was the Minister of Sport and Recreation from February 2018 to May 2019.
Zuma's successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa, initially retained Xasa in his cabinet as Minister of Sport and Recreation from February 2018.
[3] She trained as a teacher and taught at several different high schools;[3] at the same time, she joined the ANC Women's League in 1993.
[11] On the night of 30 March 2017, Zuma announced a controversial cabinet reshuffle, in which Xasa was appointed to replace Hanekom as Minister of Tourism.
[15] However, in June 2017, she caused a minor stir when she revealed in an answer to a parliamentary question that SA Tourism, an agency under her oversight, had a multi-million-rand contract with Bell Pottinger, the public relations firm that had recently been linked to disinformation campaigns by the Gupta family and Duduzane Zuma.
SA Tourism's United Kingdom office had paid the firm R9.6 million for public relations and communications services over three years.
[18] In September 2017, Xasa was elected to a two-year term as one of two deputy chairpersons of the United Nations World Tourism Organization's Regional Commission for Africa.
[8] However, Ramaphosa sacked her from his second cabinet, appointing Nathi Mthethwa to replace her in a newly enlarged portfolio as Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture.
[26] Ramaphosa subsequently designated her as South African Ambassador to Belgium, with non-resident accreditation to Luxembourg and the European Union.