biography
| name: |
Treurnicht, Andries Petrus
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pronunciation:
[troyernikht]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1921–93)
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| biography:
| South African politician, born in Piketberg, SW South Africa. He studied theology at the universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch, and was elected to parliament in 1971. He became Transvaal provincial National Party leader in 1978, and held a succession of posts in the cabinets of P W Botha from 1979. He and his colleagues resigned from the party in 1982 to form the new, right-wing Conservative Party (CP). The CP, which has pressed for a return to traditional apartheid values and effective partitioning of the country, had secured the support of more than a quarter of the white electorate by the turn of the decade. |
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