# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-masutha
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:00:04.776Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-masutha"
name: "Michael Masutha"
slug: "michael-masutha"
description: "Tshililo Michael Masutha is a South African advocate and retired politician. He was born in Valdezia in 1965 in Northern Transvaal, which is now Limpopo province, in South Africa. He is the former Minister of Justice and Correctional Services. Before becoming MP in 1999, he served as a human rights lawyer. He served as the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology from 2013 to 2014. Born with a visual disability, he was the second minister with a disability to be appointed to Jacob Zuma's cabinet. He founded Northern Transvaal Association for the Blind in 1989."
tagline: "South African politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Masutha.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.73
  momentum:             1.48936170212766
  historical:           5.078330666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Masutha"
    title: "Michael Masutha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Masutha"
    title: "Michael Masutha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Masutha"
    title: "Michael Masutha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AA%DA%BE%D8%A7"
    title: "مائیکل مسوتھا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Masutha"
    title: "Michael Masutha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tshililo_Michael_Masutha"
    title: "Tshililo Michael Masutha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20774316"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump