Alfred Trollip

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Alfred Trollip

Alfred Ernest Trollip (born July 16, 1895 in Johannesburg , † March 12, 1972 in Pretoria , Transvaal ) was a South African lawyer and politician of the United Party (UP) and later the National Party (NP), who was a minister several times.

Life

Alfred Ernst Trollip, descendant of British immigrants in 1820 , graduated from the Witwatersrand University after attending school in Johannesburg . He was initially a member of the United Party (UP), for which he was elected a member of the Council of the Transvaal Province . In the elections of May 18, 1938, he was elected for the first time as a member of the Chamber of Deputies (Volksraad van Suid-Afrika) for the UP and initially represented the constituency of Brakpan . At the same time, he completed postgraduate studies in history at the Witwatersrand University, where he obtained a Master of Arts (MA History) in 1947 with a thesis on the Prime Minister of the South African Union , Barry Hertzog , who ruled from 1924 to 1939, entitled The First Phase of Hertzogism . In the elections of April 15, 1953, he was re-elected as a member of the Chamber of Deputies in the constituency of Bezuidenhout , which he now belonged to until the April 16, 1958 election. He then succeeded Denis Gem Shepstone Administrator of the Natal Province in 1958 and held this office until November 1961, after which Theo Gerdener succeeded him.

In 1961 Trollip left the United Party and switched to the Nasionale Party (NP), for which he became a member of the Senate (Senaat) in 1961 . Between October 8, 1961 and March 30, 1966, he held the post of Minister of Labor in the Verwoerd I cabinet . The appointment of him and Information Minister Frank Waring was seen as a rapprochement between Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd and the English-speaking population. In the subsequent Verwoerd II cabinet , he served from April 1, 1966 to September 6, 1966 as Minister for Immigration and Minister for Indian Affairs . He also took over this function in the Vorster I cabinet formed by Balthazar Johannes Vorster on September 13, 1966 after Verwoerd's murder . In the course of a cabinet reshuffle, he was replaced as immigration minister by Connie Mulder in 1968 , while Frank Waring succeeded him as minister for affairs of the Indian population.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich van der Heyden, Heike Liebau: Missionsgeschichte, Kirchengeschichte, Weltgeschichte: Christian missions in the context of national developments in Africa, Asia and Oceania , p. 199, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996
  2. ↑ Natal: Administrators (rulers.org)
  3. ↑ Audie Klotz: Migration and National Identity in South Africa, 1860-2010 , p. 185, Cambridge University Press, 2013
  4. ↑ James Barber, John Barratt: South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for Status and Security, 1945-1988 , p. 92, CUP Archive, 1990
  5. ↑ Africa Report , Volumes 13-14, p. 45, 1968
personal data
SURNAME Trollip, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trollip, Alfred Ernest (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1972
Place of death Pretoria , Transvaal