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Andries Petrus Treurnicht [ ˈtrəørnəxt ] (born February 19, 1921 in Piketberg , Cape Province , † April 22, 1993 in Cape Town ) was a South African politician and author.

Life

He obtained a master's degree in theology from the University of Stellenbosch . He was then at the University of Cape Town in the subject Political Philosophy PhD . From 1946 he was pastor for the Dutch Reformed Church in various congregations for 14 years and was elected deputy chairman of the nationwide synod . In 1949 he married Engela Dreyer. In 1960 Treurn did not begin a career as a journalist. He became editor of Die Kerkbode - the magazine of the Dutch Reformed Church - and Hoofstad.

In 1970 Treurnicht became a politician. In the course of the parliamentary elections in 1971 he was elected a member of the constituency of Waterberg for the ruling National Party (NP) . From 1972 to 1974 he was chairman of the influential Broederbond secret society . In 1976 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Education. He issued the directive that half of the lessons for black students should also be held in the Afrikaans language . This led to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976 with hundreds of dead students. Because of his uncompromising attitude he was also called “Dr. No ”. In 1978 he was appointed party leader of what was then the Transvaal Province, from 1979 he was Minister for Public Service, Statistics and Tourism and a year later Minister for Administration and Statistics.

On March 20, 1982 Treurnicht and another 22 MPs left the NP and founded the Konserwatiewe Party (KP and CP). The parliamentarians wanted to demonstrate their opposition to government policy, which had slightly relaxed the rules of apartheid with the formation of low-impact parliaments for Coloreds and " Indians ". The CP accused the government of wanting to share power with the rest of the population. Treuericht was elected chairman. In the 1987 parliamentary elections, the CP won around 550,000 votes from the white electorate, mainly from Afrikaans speakers, and outstripped the liberal Progressive Federal Party (PFP) for the first time with 22 seats , so that Treurn did not become the opposition leader . In the early parliamentary elections in 1989, his party received around 31.5% of the vote and 41 of the 178 seats. In 1992 Treurnicht led a campaign against a referendum by the NP, which was supposed to win the approval of whites for negotiations on an end to apartheid. Almost a million white South Africans, especially Boers, voted “No”, but around two million voted for the referendum.

In 1993 the high-ranking CP member Clive Derby-Lewis was convicted of having organized the murder plot against the ANC politician Chris Hani at the behest of the CP leadership . Treurnicht died shortly afterwards during heart surgery. His successor as the second and last party chairman of the KP was Ferdinand Hartzenberg.

Literary work

Treurnicht wrote 16 books, mostly on cultural subjects. He shows himself to be a radical advocate of apartheid, for example in his book Credo van 'n Afrikaner, published in 1975 , in which he claimed, among other things, that racial segregation was introduced in South Africa as early as 1652, the year of the arrival of white settlers.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Hermann Giliomee: Obituary: Andries Treurnicht . In: The Independent , April 27, 1993, accessed May 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ South Africa: From Paradise. In: Der Spiegel 13/1985, March 25, 1985, p. 168, accessed on November 14, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Not true, Andries
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Treurnicht, Andries Petrus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African politician and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Piketberg , Cape Province
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1993
Place of death Cape Town