Carel Boshoff IV | |
Office: | President of the Orania Movement |
Term Start: | 2007 |
Term End: | 2019 |
Predecessor: | Carel Boshoff |
Successor: | Joost Strydom |
Birth Name: | Carel Willem Hendrik Boshoff |
Birth Place: | Pretoria, South Africa |
Occupation: | Leader of Orania, writer |
Years Active: | 2007 – 27 May 2019 |
Known For: | Leader of Orania |
Alma Mater: | University of Pretoria |
Party: | Freedom Front Plus |
Carel Willem Hendrik Boshoff (usually written as Carel Boshoff IV), is a South African politician and writer known for being the leader of the Afrikaner-only town Orania.
He was also the provincial leader from 2003 to 2015 of the Freedom Front Plus party in Northern Cape province.
He was born in 1963, the son of Carel Boshoff, the founder of Orania.[1] He majored in science at the University of Pretoria, on which he had written a doctoral thesis in 1992 called "Afrikaners na Apartheid" ("Afrikaners after Apartheid").[2] [3]
Son of Orania's founder, he was the leader of the Orania movement from 2007 until 2019.[4] In 2016, he became mayor of Orania[5] but three years later, on 27 May 2019, he resigned due to corruption allegations, which he denied.[6] [7]