T. E. Dönges

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Theophilus Ebenhaezer ('Eben') Dönges (1898-1968) was a South African politician who was elected State President of South Africa but died before he could take office.

Dr Dönges was a senior member of the National Party which ruled South Africa from 1948 to 1994. As Minister of the Interior, from 1948 to 1961, he was one of the so-called "architects of apartheid, introducing race-based population registration, and removing Coloured voters from the common voters' roll as a prelude to disfranchising them altogether. He was Minister of Finance from 1961 to 1967.

Dönges was elected State President to succeed C.R. Swart in 1967, but suffered a stroke and fell into a coma before he could take office. He died in 1968 without regaining consciousness. He received the posthumous honours granted to a former state president, i.e. a state funeral, and his effigy on the following year's coins.

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v • d • e Home affairs ministers of South Africa

pre-Apartheid (1910-1948)	Smuts • Fischer • Theron • Watt • Duncan • Malan • Hofmeyr • Stuttaford • Lawrence • Clarkson • Lawrence

Apartheid-era (1948-1994)	Dönges • Naudé • de Klerk • Le Roux • Muller • Viljoen • Mulder • Schlebusch • Heunis • de Klerk • Botha • Louw • Pienaar • Schutte

Post-Apartheid (1994-present)	Buthelezi • Mapisa-Nqakula

v • d • e Finance ministers of South Africa

pre-Apartheid (1910-1948)	Hull • Smuts • Graaff • Burton • Orr • Burton • Havenga • Hofmeyr • Sturrock

Apartheid-era (1948-1994)	Havenga • Louw • Naudé • Dönges • Diederichs • Horwood • du Plessis • Keys

Post-Apartheid (1994-present)	Liebenberg • Keys • Manuel