Michiel Coenraad Botha

Michiel Coenraad Botha (born December 14, 1912 in Lindley , today a Free State Province , South Africa ; † July 10, 1993 ) was a South African politician of the Nasionale Party (NP), who between 1966 and 1977 was Minister of Bantu Administration and Development and education was.

Life

After attending school in 1930, Botha began studying at the University of Stellenbosch , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He was subsequently a teacher at various schools in the Transvaal Province between 1935 and 1937 and lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch from 1937 to 1943 . After that, he went to Johannesburg , where he first deputy secretary and later secretary of the Association for Afrikaans -Language and Culture ( Association for Afrikaans Language and Culture was).

In 1953 Botha was elected for the first time for the National Party (NP) as a member of the National Assembly and represented the constituency of Roodepoort in this . In 1958 he was appointed spokesman for the National Party and then in November 1960 by Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd as Deputy Minister for Bantu Administration, Development and Education. In April 1966 he finally took over the office of Minister for Bantu Administration, Development and Education as the successor to Michel Daniel Christiaan de Wet Nel in the Verwoerd cabinet , and he also worked in the government of Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster until 1977, whereupon in January 1977 Cornelius Petrus Mulder succeeded him and took over the renamed Department of Plural Relations and Development . He was responsible for the policy of apartheid -state of Bantu affairs concerning how the law on the promotion of economic development in the homelands ( Promotion of Economic Development of Home Lands Act ) and was there through its Deputy Minister Piet Koornhof and later Andries Treurnicht supported.

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