Carel Boshoff
Carel Boshoff | |
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![]() Carel Boshoff (2009) | |
Chairman of the Afrikaner Broederbond | |
In office 1980–1983 | |
Preceded by | Viljoen, G. |
Succeeded by | de Lange, J.P. |
President of the Orania Movement | |
In office 1990–2007 | |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Carel Boshoff IV |
Personal details | |
Born | Carel Willem Hendrik Boshoff 9 November 1927 Orania, Northern Cape, South Africa |
Political party | Freedom Front Plus (1994-2011) |
Other political affiliations |
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Spouse |
Anna Verwoerd
(m. 1954; died 2007) |
Children | 7, including Orania |
Carel Willem Hendrik Boshoff (9 November 1927 – 16 March 2011)
Biography
Boshoff was born in
Boshoff's wife (also named Anna), whom he married in 1954, was the daughter of Hendrik Verwoerd who served as prime minister of South Africa (1958-1966) and became known as the architect of apartheid.[6] They had seven children; she died in 2007.[7] Boshoff led the Voortrekker movement from 1981 to 1989.[8] Further, he served as chairman of the Afrikaner Broederbond from 1980 to 1983. He had to leave the Broederbond in 1983, when members of the newly formed Conservative Party were not welcome any more.[9] He chaired the Freedom Front in Northern Cape from 1994.[citation needed]
Boshoff established the Afrikaner Volkswag in May 1984 with the ostensible purpose of defending Afrikaner culture, although in practice it was mainly involved in opposing the liberalising of some racial laws under
In 1988 he founded AVSTIG or Afrikaner Vryheidstigting, although he is mainly known as the founder in 1990 of
Death
Boshoff died aged 83 from cancer at his home on 16 March 2011.[14]
Chairmanships
Position | Organisation | Appointed | Concluded |
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Chair | Orania Representative Council | 2000 | 2006 |
Chair | Orania Bestuurdienste (Pty) Ltd | 1990 | |
Executive Chair | Afrikaner Vryheidstigting / Orania Movement | 1988 | |
Chair | Afrikaanse Gereformeerde Bond | 1987 | |
Chair | Die Afrikaner Volkswag (Cultural Organisation) | 1984 | 1999 |
Chair | Die Afrikaner Broederbond | 1979 | 1983 |
Founder & Chair | Institute for Missiological Research, UP | 1979 | 1988 |
Chair | South African Bureau for Racial Affairs | 1972 | 1999 |
Member | Council Rand College of Education | 1963 | 1979 |
Chair | NG Kerkboekhandel | 1988 |
See also
- Carel Boshoff IV
- Orania, Northern Cape
- Freedom Front Plus
References
- ^ a b "Boshoff". Archived from the original on 18 October 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^ Weber, Bruce (19 March 2011). "Carel Boshoff, Founder of White Redoubt in South Africa, Dies at 83". The New York Times.
- ^ "Carel Boshoff". Telegraph. 17 March 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ^ Carel Boshoff profile[permanent dead link]
- ^ Grobler, F. (2004). The Afrikaner homeland: a fading dream. South African Historical Organization.
- ^ "Anna Boshoff was a 'community person par excellence'" Archived August 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Anna Boshoff was 'community person par excellence'". Mail & Guardian. 10 July 2007. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ^ Profile in African Who's Who Archived November 7, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- S2CID 154640869.
- ^ Carole Cooper, Jennifer Shindler, Colleen McCaul, Frances Potter, Melanie Cullum, Monty Narsoo, Pierre Brouard, Race Relations Survey 1985, Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1986, p. 11
- ^ Cooper et al, Race Relations Survey 1985, p. 570
- ^ "Orania, white and blue" Archived August 12, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Kaalvoet women's group honours the koeksister". IOL News. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ^ "Notice of the death of Carel Boshoff". Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
External links
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