Minister of Forestry
Dion George is a South African politician who is currently serving as the Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries since July 2024. He is a Member of Parliament for the Democratic Alliance (DA) He is the Federal Finance Chair of the DA, and is a member of the Party’s Federal Council, Federal Executive and National Management Committee. He is co-chair of the Cabinet Committee on International Cooperation, Trade and Security.
Elected to the Johannesburg City Council in March 2006, he subsequently took his seat in the National Assembly in January 2008. He was re-elected in 2009 and 2014. He resigned from parliament in May 2015 and returned in November 2018, where he served as a permanent delegate from the Western Cape in the National Council of Provinces. He was re-elected to the National Assembly in May 2019 and May 2024.
Dion was born in Durban and moved to Vanderbijlpark at a young age, where he completed high school. At 17, he went to Wits University. After completing his undergraduate degree, he entered the financial services industry where he built his career. During this time, he was a vigorous community activist and this prompted what he describes as his other career, politics.
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