Pieter Mattheus Kruger Le Roux, generally known as P. K. Le Roux (11 November 1904 – 23 June 1985)
[ :af:PK le Roux] was a South African
National Party politician who served as a Cabinet minister between 1958 and 1968, first as
Minister of Water Affairs and Agricultural Technical Services and latterly as
Minister of the Interior
An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...
.
Biography
Pieter Mattheus Kruger Le Roux was born on 11 November 1904 at Doornhoek, a farm near
De Rust
De Rust is a small village at the gateway to the Klein Karoo, South Africa. The name is Dutch and literally translates to "The Rest", referring to the town's original purpose of being a resting place for settlers en route through the challenging t ...
in the vicinity of
Oudtshoorn in what was then the
Cape Colony. His parents were Gert Cornelis Le Roux and his wife Margaretha. He attended Outeniqua High School in
George, then the
University of Stellenbosch.
First elected to parliament in 1948 as the
National Party member for
Victoria West, Le Roux became the government's
Chief Whip
The Chief Whip is a political leader whose task is to enforce the whipping system, which aims to ensure that legislators who are members of a political party attend and vote on legislation as the party leadership prescribes.
United Kingdom
...
in the South African parliament in 1955. He was appointed to the Cabinet as
Minister of Water Affairs and Agricultural Technical Services in 1958, shortly before the end of
J. G. Strijdom's premiership, and retained this role under Strijdom's successor
Hendrik Verwoerd until 1966, when
B. J. Vorster became Prime Minister following Verwoerd's assassination. Vorster made Le Roux
Minister of the Interior
An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...
, a post he retained until 1968.
Election results
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1904 births
Afrikaner people
Government ministers of South Africa
Members of the House of Assembly (South Africa)
National Party (South Africa) politicians
1985 deaths