Beyers Smit | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office: | Member of the National Assembly |
Term Start: | 22nd May 2024 |
Office1: | Permanent delegate to the National Council of Provinces |
Term Start1: | 22 May 2014 |
Term End1: | 14 May 2024 |
Birthname: | Christiaan Frederik Beyers Smit |
Nationality: | South African |
Party: | Democratic Alliance |
Occupation: | Member of Parliament |
Profession: | Politician |
Christiaan Frederik Beyers Smit is a South African politician who has been a permanent delegate on the National Council of Provinces from May 2014 to May 2024. Smit is a member of the Limpopo delegation and a party member of the Democratic Alliance.
Smit is a former PR and Executive councillor of the Mogalakwena Local Municipality.[1] In October 2017, he was elected as one of two deputy provincial chairpersons of the Democratic Alliance.[2]
Following the general election that was held on 7 May 2014, Smit was elected as a permanent delegate to the National Council of Provinces from Limpopo. He was sworn in as a Member of Parliament on 22 May 2014.[3] In June 2014, he was assigned to his committees for the 2014–2019 term.[4]
On 23 May 2019, Smit took office for his second term as a permanent delegate to the NCOP. The DA appointed him as their shadow chairperson.[5] He was named to his new committees on 24 June 2019.
He was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa in 2024.
Beyer is openly gay.[6]