Carel de Wet
Carel de Wet (born May 25, 1924 in the Orange Free State , † May 22, 2004 ) was a South African doctor , politician and ambassador .
Life
Carel de Wet was born in the Orange Free State of South Africa (now the Province of Free State ). He was a grandson of Christiaan de Wet . De Wet attended Vrede High School and graduated from the University of Pretoria , received a bachelor's degree and became a farmer . He was on the board of directors of ATC (Pty) Ltd., a mining company in Vanderbijlpark / Vereeniging . From 1953 to 1964 he sat for the constituency of Vanderbijlpark and from 1967 to 1972 for the constituency of Johannesburg-West in parliament. During his first term as High Commissioner in London , he appeared publicly at the invitation of the Conservative Party in Oxford , the accompanying protests against the Sharpeville massacre were suppressed by the British government.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Hilgard Muller |
South African High Commissioner in London 1964–1967 |
Hendrik Gerhardus Luttig |
| Jan Haak | South African Minister for Planning and Mining 1967–1972 |
Piet Koornhof |
| Albert Hertzog | South African Minister of Health 1968–1972 |
Schalk van der Merwe |
| Hendrik Gerhardus Luttig |
South African High Commissioner in London 1972–1977 |
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South African High Commissioner in London in 1983 |
Kent Diederich Skelton Durr |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birthdays. Sunday Times , May 27, 2007, accessed August 14, 2011 .
- ^ Ali Tariq: Street fighting years. an autobiography of the sixties. 1987, p. 102 , accessed on August 14, 2011 (English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wet, Carel de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | free State |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 2004 |