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First Cabinet Of P.W. Botha
When P.W. Botha first became Prime Minister of South Africa in 1981, he appointed members of the National Party to positions in his first Cabinet Cabinet or The Cabinet may refer to: Furniture * Cabinetry, a box-shaped piece of furniture with doors and/or drawers * Display cabinet, a piece of furniture with one or more transparent glass sheets or transparent polycarbonate sheets * Filing .... Cabinet References Government of South Africa Executive branch of the government of South Africa Cabinets of South Africa 1981 establishments in South Africa 1987 disestablishments in South Africa Cabinets established in 1981 Cabinets disestablished in 1987 {{SouthAfrica-poli-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini. It also completely enclaves the country Lesotho. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World, and the second-most populous country located entirely south of the equator, after Tanzania. South Africa is a biodiversity hotspot, with unique biomes, plant and animal life. With over 60 million people, the country is the world's 24th-most populous nation and covers an area of . South Africa has three capital cities, with the executive, judicial and legislative branches of government based in Pretoria, Bloemfontein, and Cape Town respectively. The largest city is Johannesburg. About 80% of the population are Black South Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piet Koornhof
Pieter G. J. Koornhof, (2 August 1925 – 12 November 2007) was a South African politician. As an apartheid-era National Party cabinet minister, he held various portfolios in the cabinets of B.J. Vorster and P.W. Botha, and was later appointed ambassador to the United States. After the end of apartheid, he joined the African National Congress in 2001. Early life and education Piet Koornhof was born on 2 August 1925 in Leeudoringstad in the Western Transvaal. He studied theology at the University of Stellenbosch, and completed his studies at Oxford after being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. His doctoral dissertation focussed on the "inevitable urbanisation" of black people in Africa. Political career After returning to South Africa, he joined the National Party in 1956. He became a researcher for Hendrik Verwoerd, the Prime Minister of South Africa, and was appointed director of the ''Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge'', an institute for the advancement of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andries Treurnicht
Andries Petrus Treurnicht (19 February 1921 – 22 April 1993) was a South African politician, Minister of Education during the Soweto Riots and for a short time leader of the National Party in Transvaal. In 1982 he founded and led the Conservative Party of South Africa whose successes among the white electorate made him Leader of the Opposition in 1987, a position he retained until his death. Early life Treurnicht was born in Piketberg, Cape Province, and began his working life as a journalist, being editor of ''Die Kerkbode'' and ''Hoofstad''. He was a keen sportsman, excelling on the rugby field, playing provincial rugby against the All Blacks in 1949. After obtaining his MA in Theology at the University of Stellenbosch, he completed a Doctorate in Political Philosophy at the University of Cape Town. He subsequently entered the Dutch Reformed Church (NG Kerk), serving various congregations as minister for fourteen years. He was elected Deputy Chairman of the Cape Synod and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Le Grange
Louis le Grange (16 August 1928 – 25 October 1991) was a lawyer, a South African politician and a member of the National Party. Early life Le Grange was born to Elizabeth Raats and Johannes Jacobus Le Grange in Ladybrand in the Orange Free State of South Africa. He attended primary school in Fochville and Potchefstroom and matriculated Potchefstroom Hoer Volkskool in 1946. After matriculating, he joined the Department of Interior and Justice in 1947 as clerk while studying for a Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Africa, obtaining it in 1953. He left to become an attorney in partnership, obtaining his Attorneys' Admission Diploma in 1955 and an LL.B. in 1956. He received a BA Honours in Political Science in 1964 from the University of Potchefstroom. Political career His came from a politically active family, his mother a secretary of the National Party's Kimberley branch in 1915, while his father had stood as an independent in Losberg in 1938. He was a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanus François Kotzé
Stephanus is a masculine given name, a surname and a genus. It may refer to: Sole name * Stephanus I of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch 342–344 * Stephanus of Byzantium, 6th century author of an important geographical dictionary * Stephanus of Alexandria, 7th-century Byzantine philosopher, astronomer and teacher * ''Stephanus'' (insect), a genus of parasitoid wasps in the family Stephanidae Various members of the Estienne family of Parisian printers and scholars * Henri Estienne (elder) (1470-1520), Parisian printer also known as Henricus Stephanus, father of Charles and Robert Estienne * Robert Estienne (1503-1559), known as Robertus Stephanus in Latin, French printer and classical scholar in Paris * Charles Estienne (1504–1564), Carolus Stephanus in Latin, an early exponent of the science of anatomy in France, brother of Robert Estienne * Henri Estienne (1528 or 1531–1598), Henricus Stephanus in Latin, French printer and classical scholar, son of Robert Estienne Given nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanie Botha (1930–2001), South African discus thrower and shot putter
* Fanie du Toit, South African politician
* Fanie van der Merwe (born 1986), South African athlete
* Fanie is a South African male given name. Notable people with this name include: * Fanie Eloff (1885-1947) * Fanie Lombaard (born 1969), South African athlete * Fanie de Jager (born 1949), South African operatic tenor * Fanie de Villiers (born 1964), South African cricket player * Fanie du Plessis Stephanus ("Fanie") Johannes du Plessis (23 February 1930 – 13 August 2001) was a discus thrower and shot putter, who represented South Africa at two Summer Olympics in 1956 and 1960. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kobie Coetsee
Hendrik Jacobus Coetsee (19 April 1931 – 29 July 2000), known as Kobie Coetsee, was a South African lawyer, National Party politician and administrator as well as a negotiator during the country's transition to universal democracy. Biography Born 19 April 1931 in Ladybrand a small agricultural town in the province of Orange Free State (now the province of Free State), he studied law at the University of the Orange Free State and qualified as an attorney. In 1968, Coetsee won the Bloemfontein West seat in the House of Assembly, vacated by J. J. Fouche, who became State President. P. W. Botha appointed him in 1978 as Deputy Minister for Defence and National Intelligence and, in 1980, to the powerful position of Justice Minister. The portfolio of Prisons was added to his responsibilities. On 12 October 1978, Coetsee became Deputy Minister of Defence and National Security. He reorganised National Intelligence after the Information Scandal and adjusted the national service to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Kruger
James Thomas Kruger (20 December 1917 – 9 May 1987) was a South African-born politician who was part of the conservative National Party government which championed apartheid. He rose to the position of Minister of Justice and the Police in the cabinet of Prime Minister John Vorster from 1974 to 1979. He was also President of the Senate from 1979 until 1980, when it was abolished. Background Kruger was born in Bethlehem, Orange Free State, South Africa of Welsh parents and was adopted by Afrikaner parents. He obtained his matric from a high school in Ventersdorp and then became a miner. He trained as a surveyor at a gold mine in Brakpan before taking an exam as a mining surveyor. Later he would work as surveyor engineer in Barberton. Education Kruger studied part-time for an Afrikaans teaching degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA) and later attended the University of the Witwatersrand where he obtained a law degree in 1954. He began practising as a lawyer in 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pik Botha
Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, (27 April 1932 – 12 October 2018) was a South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era, the longest-serving in South African history. Known as a liberal within the party, Botha served to present a friendly, conciliatory face on the regime, while criticised internally. He was a leading contender for the leadership of the National Party upon John Vorster's resignation in 1978, but was ultimately not chosen. Staying in the government after the first non-racial general election in 1994, he served under Mandela as Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs from 1994 to 1996, and eventually joined the African National Congress (ANC) after his resignation. Botha was nicknamed 'Pik' (short for ''pikkewyn'', Afrikaans for 'penguin') because of a perceived likeness to a penguin in his stance, accentuated when he wore a suit. He was not related to Prime Minister (later State President) P. W. Botha, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Horwood
Owen Pieter Faure Horwood (6 December 1916 – 13 September 1998) was a South African economist, politician, leader of the National Party in the province of Natal and Finance Minister 1975 to 1984. He was married to Helen Watt, sister of Janet Smith, the wife of Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia. After matriculating at Paarl Boys’ High School, Horwood studied at the University of Cape Town where he obtained his B.Com degree and a post-graduate diploma in actuarial science. He worked in Cape Town until 1947 when he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Commerce at the University of Cape Town. In 1954 he became an associate professor at that university and in 1956 Professor in Economics at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in Salisbury. Horwood was then appointed professor of economics on the Durban campus of the University of Natal, but his conservative, pro-apartheid views were not known to his colleagues or students. In 1965 Horwood became principal and vice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornelis Van Der Merwe
Cornelis is a Dutch form of the male given name Cornelius. Some common shortened versions of Cornelis in Dutch are Cees, Cor, Corné, Corneel, Crelis, Kees, Neel and Nelis. Cornelis (Kees) and Johannes (Jan) used to be the most common given names in the Low Countries, and the origin of the term Yankees is commonly thought to derive from the term Jan-Kees for the Dutch settlers in New Netherland. Among the notable persons named Cornelis are: * Cornelis Engebrechtsz (c. 1462–1527), painter from Leiden * Cornelis Massijs (c. 1508–1556), painter from Flanders, Belgium * Cornelis Floris de Vriendt (1513/14-1575), architect and sculptor * Cornelis Cort (c. 1533–1578), engraver and draughtsman * Cornelis Corneliszoon (c. 1550–1607), inventor of the wind powered sawmill * Cor Dillen (c. 1920–2009), director of Philips and their CEO in South America * Cornelis van Haarlem (1562–1638), leading Northern Mannerist painter * Cornelis de Houtman (1565–1599), explorer who st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerrit Viljoen
Gerrit Van Niekerk Viljoen (11 September 1926 in Cape Town – 29 March 2009) was a South African government minister and member of the National Party. He was chair of the Broederbond from 1974 to 1980, Administrator-General of South West Africa from 1979 to 1980, Minister of Education in South Africa from 1980 to 1989, and Minister of Constitutional Development from 1989 to 1992. Early life He was born in Cape Town in 1926, the son of Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen, the editor of Huisgenoot magazine. He attended Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Afrikaans High School for Boys, also known as Affies), a popular and renowned public school located in Pretoria. He continued his studies at the University of Pretoria. Here he was elected to the Student Representative Council and in 1948 was a founder of the Union of Afrikaans students. He studied classical literature and philosophy at the University of Cambridge, then at the University of Leiden, where he passed his PhD summa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |