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Johannes "Jan" de Klerk, DMS (22 July 1903 – 24 January 1979 [1]) was a South African politician. He was the father of F. W. de Klerk , the last apartheid State President of South Africa . As a member of the National Party , de Klerk served as interim State President for nine days following the retirement of Jacobus Johannes Fouché in 1975 ...
Johannes de Klerk (1903–1979) acting: 9 April 1975 19 April 1975 10 days National Party — 3 Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs (1903–1978) 19 April 1975 21 August 1978 (died in office) 3 years, 124 days National Party: 1975 — Marais Viljoen (1915–2007) acting: 21 August 1978 10 October 1978 50 days National Party — 4 Balthazar Johannes ...
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Jacobus Johannes Fouché, State President (1968–1975) Johannes de Klerk, Acting State President (1975) Nico Diederichs, State President (1975–1978) Marais Viljoen, Acting State President (1978) Balthazar Johannes Vorster, State President (1978–1979) Marais Viljoen, State President (1979–1984) P. W. Botha, State President (1984–1989)
De Klerk's first language was Afrikaans and the earliest of his distant ancestors to arrive in what is now South Africa did so in the late 1680s. [3] De Klerk had a secure and comfortable upbringing, and his family had played a leading role in Afrikaner society; [4] they had longstanding affiliations with South Africa's National Party. [5]
Johannes de Klerk: Education, arts and sciences and information 1966–1967 John Vorster: Johannes de Klerk: National education 1968–1969 John Vorster: Johannes Petrus van der Spuy: Education and training Ferdinand Hartzenberg: Education and training 1979–1982 PW Botha: Gerrit Viljoen: National education 1980–1989 PW Botha: F. W. de Klerk
Johannes de Klerk (1903–1979) 6 June 1969 January 1976 6 years, 6 months National Party: 10 Marais Viljoen (1915–2007) 23 January 1976 18 June 1979 3 years, 146 days National Party: 11 Jimmy Kruger (1917–1987) 19 June 1979 31 December 1980 1 year, 195 days National Party: Post abolished (1 January 1981 – 20 May 1994)
Marais Viljoen, DMS (2 December 1915 – 4 January 2007) was the last ceremonial State President of South Africa from 4 June 1979 until 3 September 1984. Viljoen became the last of the ceremonial presidents of South Africa when he was succeeded in 1984 by Prime Minister P. W. Botha, who combined the offices into an executive state presidency.