Adriaan Zacharias Albertus "Alie" van Jaarsveld (born 28 January 1954) is a South African politician and communications strategist. He represented the
New National Party (NNP) in the
National Assembly
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from 1999 to 2004, serving the
Eastern Cape
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constituency. He later served as a spokesman in the
Western Cape Provincial Government.
Early life
Van Jaarsveld was born on 28 January 1954.
His father, Ben van Jaarsveld, was a longtime employee of the
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, the NNP's predecessor, and a self-described "apostle for the previous
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Political career
In the 1999 South African general election">1999 general election, van Jaarsveld was elected to represent the NNP in the National Assembly. With
Manie Schoeman, he was one of the party's two representatives in the
Eastern Cape constituency.
During the parliamentary term that followed, he was also the NNP's media director.
Van Jaarsveld left Parliament after the
2004 general election. Shortly after the election, he was appointed as spokesman to his NNP colleague,
Cobus Dowry, who was newly appointed as the
Western Cape
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's
Provincial Minister for Agriculture.
The
Democratic Alliance said that van Jaarsveld's appointment to this government office was an example of
nepotism
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by the NNP.
Personal life
Van Jaarsveld was married for three decades to Anne-Marie van Jaarsveld, who represented the NNP as a local councillor.
They were separated by 2003 and van Jaarsveld began a relationship with an NNP parliamentary researcher. The Van Jaarsvelds' divorce proceedings in that year received extensive media attention after Anne-Marie told the press about her husband's new relationship.
References
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Living people
1954 births
Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 1999–2004
South African civil servants