Carel Boshoff IV explained

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.

Biography

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]

Orania

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]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Verwoerd's grandson will have a seat in Parliament. 2022-01-20. www.iol.co.za. en.
  2. Web site: 2016-01-07. Orania, a South African country without colour. 2022-01-20. The Africa Report.com. en-US.
  3. https://era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/14194/Seldon2015.pdf?sequence=4 Orania and the reinvention of Afrikanerdom
  4. Haleniuk. Alex. Orania – the embryo of a new Volkstaat?. en.
  5. Web site: Elections 2016: What will happen in Orania?. 2022-01-20. Germiston City News. en-US.
  6. Web site: 2019-05-27. Orania leader Carel Boshoff hangs up his khakis after corruption 'exoneration'. 2022-01-20. The Citizen. en.
  7. Web site: 2019-04-24. Orania's leader Carel Boshoff now accused of corruption. 2022-01-20. The Citizen. en.