Pieter Mulder

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Pieter Willem Adriaan Mulder (born  July 26, 1951 in Randfontein ) is a South African politician . He has been a member of the South African Parliament since 1988, from 1988 to 1994 for the Konserwatiewe Party and since 1994 for the Vryheidsfront . In addition, he was Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from 2009 to 2014 and Chairman of Vryheidsfront Plus from 2001 to 2016 .

Life

Pieter Mulder, 2013

Pieter Mulder was born in Randfontein in 1951, where he graduated from Riebeeck High School . He studied Communication Sciences at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education , where he a 1973 BA and 1976 a MA degree attained and in 1978 received his doctorate . From 1974 he worked at the university as a lecturer and, after an interim post-doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , from 1984 as professor and head of the department of communication studies.

After he was first elected to the Potchefstroom City Council in 1985 , he was a member of the South African Parliament for the Conservative Party from 1988 to 1994 . Since the first general and free elections after the abolition of apartheid on April 27, 1994, he has represented as a member of the Vryheidsfront Plus (VF +), which he co-founded in March of the same year , and which he co-founded. In June 2001 he also took over the chairmanship of the party, which is conservative and positions itself as a representative of the Boers' interests in South Africa. From May 2009 to May 2014 he was deputy minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries in the government of Jacob Zuma . In 2016 he resigned as Chairman of VF +.

Pieter Mulder is married and has one son and four daughters. He is the eldest son of Cornelius Petrus Mulder , who held political responsibility as a member of parliament for the National Party and as Minister of Information and Plural Relations and Development (1978) during the apartheid period .

Web links

Commons : Pieter Mulder  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pieter Mulder steps down as Freedomfront Plus leader. m.ewn.co.za of November 12, 2016 (English), accessed November 14, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Mulder, Pieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mulder, Pieter Willem Adriaan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Randfontein