Henro Krüger | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office1: | Member of the National Assembly of South Africa |
Term Start1: | 21 May 2014 |
Birthname: | Hendrik Christiaan Crafford Krüger |
Birth Date: | 6 May 1962 |
Nationality: | South African |
Party: | Democratic Alliance |
Residence: | Witbank, Mpumalanga |
Occupation: | Member of Parliament |
Profession: | Politician |
Hendrik Christiaan Crafford Krüger (born 6 May 1962) is a South African politician who has been a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since 2014, representing the Democratic Alliance.
Krüger holds a postgraduate diploma in Business Management and is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration.[1]
He served as a Democratic Alliance councillor in the Emalahleni Local Municipality of Mpumalanga from 2006 to 2014.
Krüger stood as a DA parliamentary candidate from Mpumalanga in the 2014 national elections, and was subsequently elected to the National Assembly and sworn in on 21 May 2014.[2] [3] On 5 June 2014, he was appointed Shadow Deputy Minister of Small Business Development in the new shadow cabinet led by Mmusi Maimane.[4] Krüger became a member of the Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development on 20 June.[5]
Between 17 September 2015 and 8 December 2016, he was an alternate member of the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Krüger returned to the committee on 2 March 2017 and served until the dissolution of the parliamentary term on 7 May 2019.
After the general election on 8 May 2019, Krüger was selected to return to the National Assembly.[6] He was reappointed as Shadow Deputy Minister of Small Business Development on 5 June 2019 by Maimane.[7] [8]
In March 2020, parliament published a notice of Krüger's intention to introduce the Ease of Doing Business Bill, a private member bill from the DA, which aims to develop a plan to reduce red tape for businesses that want the enter the market place.[9] Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, he called for the re-opening of Pilates, yoga and other studios in July 2020.[10] In December 2020, he was reappointed as Shadow Deputy Minister of Small Business Development in the shadow cabinet of the newly elected DA leader, John Steenhuisen.[11]
Krüger was re-elected to a third term in the National Assembly in the 2024 general election.[12]
Krüger has been a resident of Witbank for more than 30 years.[13]