Business Dlodlo's first post-apartheid job was at Portnet. Dlodlo was also director of a company called VIP Consulting Engineers, during the period in which the company had sanitation contracts with the government in
Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. Because the company never fulfilled the contract, the
National Treasury blacklisted the company and all its directors, including Dlodlo, restricting them from doing business with any level of government for five years between July 2012 and 2017. By the time the blacklisting came into effect in 2012, Dlodlo was working in the national government and had resigned from the company. After her resignation, she was investigated and then indicted on charges of
fraud and
theft relating to her work at the Scorpions between 2003 and 2004: she was alleged to have stolen some amount (disputed in various reports) from a confidential NPA fund and to have fraudulently inflated a payment to an
informant by
R30,000. She was arrested in October 2006, but the charges against her were dropped in May 2007; she said she had expected it, given that the charges were "laughable". Dlodlo resigned from the Scorpions in 2004 to join the
Gauteng provincial government, At the conference, which took place in December 2007, Dlodlo was herself elected to the ANC's
National Executive Committee. Also in 2010, a memorandum from one-time consultant
Gayton McKenzie to
Gold Fields identified Dlodlo as a person of influence in Zuma's office who had "spent a great deal of time" helping Gold Fields to
lobby Zuma in relation to mining contracts; excerpts from the memorandum were published by the
Mail & Guardian in 2013. In November 2010, Zuma appointed Dlodlo his Deputy
Minister of Public Service and Administration, a position which she retained after Zuma's re-election
in 2014 and which she held until March 2017. and continued to do so from 2011 to 2019. in another reshuffle on 17 October 2017, Dlodlo was made
Minister of Home Affairs, a portfolio which she retained for the rest of Zuma's tenure in office. During
Zuma's administration, Dlodlo was also re-elected twice to the ANC National Executive Committee –
in 2012 and then
in 2017 – and she chaired its subcommittee on legislation and governance between 2015 and 2017. Whistleblower
Vytjie Mentor also alleged, in a
Facebook post, that Dlodlo had accepted a free luxury trip to
Paris. Following these reports, in 2017, Dlodlo acknowledged that she had been wrong not to disclose the Dubai trip as a gift.
Ramaphosa presidency (2018–2022) When Zuma resigned in February 2018, Dlodlo was appointed Minister of Public Service and Administration in the
first cabinet of his successor,
Cyril Ramaphosa, where she was tasked with restructuring the national public service. She was in this position during the
July 2021 civil unrest in South Africa, which led to vigorous public and political debate about alleged
intelligence failures by state security agencies. Dlodlo later said that she felt she had been unfairly scapegoated. Weeks after the unrest, on 5 August 2021, Ramaphosa abolished the State Security portfolio and moved her back to the Public Service and Administration portfolio. However, in early April 2022, Dlodlo resigned from the cabinet and the
National Assembly to become an
executive director on the board of the
World Bank, with special responsibility for Angola, Nigeria, and South Africa. ==Personal life==