Stoffel Botha
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A lawyer by profession, he began his professional career in Johannesburg before starting a political career.
He was appointed administrator of the Natal 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 for health reasons and, despite bypass surgery, he died of heart failure at age 69 in 1998.
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