Pieter Mey (born 17 December 1948) is a South African politician and former police lieutenant. He has been serving as a Member of 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 ...

for the Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus) since May 2019. Mey is also the Eastern Cape provincial leader of the FF Plus.

Early life and education

Mey was born in 1948 in the town of Willowmore in the Union of South Africa. He matriculated from Willowmore High School in 1966. He obtained a B.Iuris degree in law from the University of Port Elizabeth.

Career

Mey joined the South African Police in 1966. He served in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Lusikisiki,

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and Western Area. He resigned from the police force in 1980 with the rank of lieutenant and started working in the real estate industry.

Politics

Mey was later appointed leader of the Freedom Front Plus in the

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. In

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he stood for election to the

South African National Assembly 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 ...

. He was not elected. In

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Mey stood for the National Assembly again. This time he was successful in his bid. He serves on the Portfolio Committee on Transport and the Portfolio Committee on Environment, Forestry and Fisheries.

Personal life

Mey is married to Elizabeth Anne, and has three children.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mey, Pieter Living people Members of the National Assembly of South Africa Freedom Front Plus politicians Politicians from the Eastern Cape Afrikaner people 1948 births