Stoffel Botha

See also: Botha

Jan Christoffel Greyling Botha


Minister of Home Affairs
In office 1984–1989
President	P. W. Botha
Personal details
Born	1929
Died	1998
Political party	National Party
Occupation	Lawyer

Jan Christoffel Greyling "Stoffel" Botha (1929–1998) was a South African politician, a member of the National Party, served as member of Parliament (elected representative of the Eshowe constituency in 1974), administrator of Natal Province (1979–1984), Minister of Home Affairs (1985–1989) in the P.W. Botha government.

Lawyer by profession, he began his professional career in Johannesburg before starting a political career.

Elected to Natal where he owned a farm, he was appointed administrator of the province in 1979. He was the provincial head of the National Party when State President P.W. Botha named him to the government in 1984 first as Minister of Education, then as Minister of Home Affairs and later the Post and Telecommunications portfolio was added to his duties.

In 1989 he announced his retirement from political life due to health reasons and despite bypass surgery he died of heart failure at age 69 in 1998.

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Political offices
Preceded by Wynand Havemann	Administrator of Natal Province 1979–1984	Succeeded by Radclyffe Cadman
Preceded by Frederik de Klerk	Minister of Home Affairs 1985-1989	Succeeded by Gene Louw

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 J. de Klerk Le Roux Muller Viljoen Gerdener Mulder Schlebusch Heunis F. W. de Klerk Botha Louw Pienaar Schutte

Post-Apartheid (1994-present)	Buthelezi Mapisa-Nqakula Dlamini-Zuma Pandor Gigaba

Leaders of KwaZulu-Natal since 1910

Administrators of Natal Province (1910–1994)	Smythe Plowman Watson Nicholls Mitchell Shepstone Trollip Gerdener Havemann S. Botha Cadman C. Botha

Chief Ministers of KwaZulu (1970–1994)	Buthelezi

Premiers of KwaZulu-Natal (1994–present)	Mdlalose Ngubane Mtshali Ndebele Mkhize Mchunu

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