Carel Boshoff

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Professor Carel Willem Hendrik Boshoff (born November 9, 1927 in Modimolle) is a African religious figure and cultural activist.

Boshoff was educated at the University of Pretoria to doctorate level in Missionary science and has served as Secretary of Missions for the Dutch Reformed Church.

Boshoff's wife Anna (died 2007), whom he married in 1954, was the daughter of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd.[1] He was chairman of the Afrikaner Broederbond from 1980 to 1983 has chaired the Freedom Front in Northern Cape since 1994, although he is mainly known as the founder in 1990 of Orania, an Afrikaner settlement. Intended as the beginning of a volkstaat, Boshoff has admitted his disappointment that it has only 600 residents, rather than the 60,000 he had anticipated.[2]

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  1. ^ "Anna Boshoff was 'community person par excellence'"
  2. ^ 'Orania, white and blue'

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