Robert Abraham Du Plooy

Robert Abraham Du Plooy (born July 5, 1921 in Bloemfontein , † after 1981) was a South African diplomat .

Life

Robert Abraham Du Plooy was the son of Eileen Beryl Wicks and Jacob Bester Du Plooy. He married Giulia Vera Bonino on October 10, 1945; they had a son. He studied law at Gray College in Bloemfontein , the University of the Free State and UNISA , and until 1958 at the University of Cologne . He obtained the degree of Doctor of Law .

Between 1941 and 1946 he served in the Army of the South African Union . From 1946 to 1949 he was employed in the Mining Ministry. In 1950 Du Plooy joined the foreign service. From 1954 to 1955 he was Vice Consul at Harvestehuder Weg 50, Hamburg , and from 1955 to 1960 Embassy Secretary in Cologne , where he temporarily acted as chargé d'affaires.

During the rivalry between systems , laws restricting human rights were passed to persecute communism . In the Union of South Africa , the Suppression of Communism Act was passed in parliament in 1950 . The Suppression of Communism Amendment Act of 1951 adapted this law to defend the balance of power in the apartheid state .

The conduct of the Treason Trial was based on this law. South African authorities applied to the Federal Ministry of Justice to be allowed to use files and documents from the trial of the KPD ban before the Federal Constitutional Court in 1956 for the proceedings against “communist functionaries” . Within three months received Charge d'Affaires Du Plooy more Request, indictments and verdicts from the KPD process.

From 1960 to 1967 he was employed in the South African Foreign Ministry in Pretoria. From 1975 to 1980 he was counselor in the homelands Transkei and Bophuthatswana as well as in South West Africa (now Namibia ).

From 1980 to 1981 he was ambassador to Transkei.

Publications

• Treaties and inter-governmental agreements between Commonwealth and foreign states and between Commonwealth states inter se, 1958
• Treaties and intergovernmental agreements between the Commonwealth and foreign states as well as between the Commonwealth states with special consideration. the Union of South Africa.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albrecht Hagemann, Bonn and Apartheid in South Africa. A memorandum of the German ambassador Rudolf Holzhausen from 1954, pages 679 ff., In quarterly issues for contemporary history: 1995 4th issue (PDF; 1.4 MB), page 691f.
2. ↑ The International Who's Who, 1989-90 , Europa Publications, 1989 - 1700 SS 434
3. ↑ Marchés tropicaux et méditerranéens , Volume 37, 1981, p. 3321
4. ^ Who's who of Southern Africa , Argus Printing and Publishing, 1987, p. 206

predecessor	Office	successor
William Henry Evered Poole 1955: Alfred Heinrich Herman Mertsch	South African ambassador in Bonn 1955–1960	Johann Kunz Uys
	South African ambassador to Brasilia from 1967 to 1970
Robert Harrowen Coaton	South African Ambassador to Santiago de Chile 1970–1974	Hendryk Albertus Geldenhuys
Robert Harrowen Coaton	South African Ambassador to Buenos Aires 1970–1974	Hendryk Albertus Geldenhuys
	South African Ambassador to Transkei 1980–1981
Antonie Eduard Loubser	South African Ambassador to Paris 1977–1981	Bahdra Galu Ranchod