Stephanus Petrus Botha
Stephanus "Fanie" Petrus Botha (born May 5, 1922 near Lusaka , Northern Rhodesia , today: Zambia ; † September 4, 2010 in Pretoria ) was a South African politician of the National Party (NP), who between 1968 and 1978 was Minister of Water Affairs and forest was.
Life
Botha grew up on the Goede Hoep farm near Lusaka , where his parents from the Transvaal had emigrated after the Second Boer War in 1902. After attending local schools, he completed his education at Paarl Boys High School in the Cape Province . He then began studying law at Stellenbosch University in 1940 , which he broke off after three years. He then took up a degree in economics there, which he completed in 1945 with a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Comm.). He then worked for the Industrial Development Corporation and in this role played a key role in the founding of the tobacco and industrial conglomerate Rembrandt Group by Anton Rupert in 1948. In 1955 he settled as a farmer in Louis Trichardt , where he dealt intensively with irrigation farming .
In 1958, Botha was elected member of the National Assembly for the first time as a candidate of the National Party (NP) and represented the constituency of Soutpansberg until 1983 . In the following years he became chairman of the country group of the national party, chairman of the national party in the province of Transvaal and was a member of the boards of directors of the daily newspapers Dagbreek and Vaderland . In 1966 he became a member of Parliament's Committee on Bantu Affairs. In early 1968 he became Deputy Minister for Water Affairs
He finally took over on August 9, 1968 from DCH Uys as Minister for Water Affairs and from Frank Waring as Minister for Forests in the government of Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster . In this function he accompanied President Jacobus Johannes Fouché on his state visit to Malawi in March 1972 . He held these ministerial offices in the government of Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster until 1976 and was then replaced by Abraham Raubenheimer .
In the course of a cabinet reshuffle, Botha replaced Marais Viljoen as Minister for Labor and Labor in 1976 . At the same time he succeeded Piet Koornhof as Mining Minister in 1976 and was also responsible for energy in this function. When the so-called Muldergate affair came to the end of the resignation of Information Minister Cornelius Petrus Mulder , who was considered the most promising successor to Prime Minister Vorster, Botha was one of the possible candidates for the post of Prime Minister alongside Defense Minister Pieter Willem Botha and Foreign Minister Pik Botha but in the end Pieter Willem Botha took over. In February 1979 he gave up his post as Mining Minister, which has now been split, whereupon Frederik Willem de Klerk Mining and Chris Heunis became Minister of Energy.
On November 15, 1983, he resigned from his post as Minister of Labor and Labor after it became known that he had received financial support from Israel . His successor as Minister for Labor and Labor was then Pietie du Plessis .
Web links
- Short biography
- New Minister of Forestry , in: South African Forestry Journal , Volume 66, 1968
- Obituary
Individual evidence
- ^ A family affair . In: The Spectator of June 24, 1978
- ↑ Checking SA's books for crooks (April 10, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Botha, Stephanus Petrus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fanie Botha (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African politician during the apartheid period |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lusaka , Northern Rhodesia , today: Zambia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 4, 2010 |
| Place of death | Pretoria |