Alwyn Schlebusch

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Alwyn Louis Schlebusch (born September 16, 1917 in Lady Gray , † January 7, 2008 in Pretoria ) was a South African politician of the National Party . He held numerous ministerial offices in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s and was the only vice-state president in the history of the country from 1981 to 1984 .

He began his political career in the 1940s as mayor of the municipality of Hennenman in what was then the Orange Free State . From 1962 to 1980 he was a member of the parliament of South Africa for the constituency of Kroonstad , which he presided over from 1974 to 1976 as President of Parliament ("Speaker").

In 1972 he became chairman of the "Schlebusch Commission" ( Commission of Inquiry into Certain Organizations ), which drafted a law that allowed the government to attribute negative sentiments to organizations and to exclude them from any international financial transfers and to confiscate their assets in South Africa . The best-known organizations affected were the National Union of South African Students and the well-known Christian Institute .

In 1976 Schlebusch became Minister for Public Works and Immigration in the government of Balthazar Johannes Vorster , in 1978 he became Minister of the Interior, in 1979 also Minister of Justice and, for a short time, Minister of Racial Affairs . In 1980 he headed a government commission to reform the South African state system. She proposed a move away from the two-chamber Westminster system towards a system with a strong president with executive power and a presidential council of 60 appointed members, in which - excluding blacks - for the first time since the beginning of apartheid the participation of colored people and South Africans of Indian origin was also provided ( Republic of South African Constitution Fifth Amendment Act, Act No. 101/1980). His proposal paved the way for the three-chamber system with the constitution that came into force in 1984 . During the transition phase, he became the representative of the Boers and deputy president, but in 1984 this office fell away. But he remained a member of the government as head of the office of the president ( Minister in the Office of the President ).

Schlebusch came from an Afrikaaner family that can be traced back to a member of the von Schlebusch family who emigrated to South Africa and who gave their name to Leverkusen-Schlebusch . He had been widowed since 1996 and had a son and two daughters.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ " SA's only state vice-president dies at 90 "; Mail & Guardian Online , January 7, 2007. ( English )
  2. ↑ Pre-Transition (1902-1989) - Chronologies - 1980. on www.nelsonmandela.org (English)
  3. ↑ Tricameral Parliament inaugurated. on www.sahistory.org.za (English)
  4. ↑ " Alwyn Schlebusch dies at age 90 ", Pretoria News, January 9, 2007. ( English )
personal data
SURNAME Schlebusch, Alwyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlebusch, Alwyn Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Lady Gray
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2008
Place of death Pretoria