Jan Naudé de Villiers (born 6 March 1980) is a South African politician who has served in the

National Assembly of South Africa The National Assembly is the directly elected house of the Parliament of South Africa, located in Cape Town, Western Cape. It consists of four hundred members who are elected every five years using a party-list proportional representation syste ...

. A member of the Democratic Alliance, he is currently serving as the Shadow Minister of Small Business Development. He previously held the post of Shadow Minister on the

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Education

De Villiers holds a Bachelor of Arts in humanity studies from the University of Stellenbosch.

Political career

Prior to his election to parliament, De Villiers was a DA councillor and a member of the mayoral committee in the Stellenbosch Local Municipality. De Villiers stood as a DA parliamentary candidate from the Western Cape in the 2019 national elections, and was subsequently elected to the National Assembly and sworn in on 22 May 2019. On 5 June 2019, he was appointed by the DA parliamentary leader, Mmusi Maimane, as Shadow Minister of the

, succeeding

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, who retired from politics. Later that month, he became a member of the Standing Committee on Auditor-General. Maimane resigned as DA leader in October 2019 and

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was voted in as his interim successor in November 2019. He temporarily retained Maimane's shadow cabinet. After Steenhuisen was elected leader for a full term at the

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, he announced his Shadow Cabinet on 5 December 2020, in which De Villiers was appointed as Shadow Minister of Small Business Development, succeeding

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. On 7 December, he became a member of the Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development. In the 2020 Register of Members’ Interests, de Villiers declared that he was a director of two property investment companies. He also disclosed that he was a co-owner of the Eikestad Mall in Stellenbosch and has the benefit of free parking at the shopping centre.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:De Villiers, Jan Living people 1980 births Afrikaner people Politicians from the Western Cape Stellenbosch University alumni Members of the National Assembly of South Africa Democratic Alliance (South Africa) politicians