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 Afrikaners () are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers who first arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.Entry: Cape Colony. ''Encyclopædia Britannica Volume 4 Part 2: Brain to Casting''. Encyclopæd ...

-only town

Orania Orania () is a Volkstaat, white separatistSources for "white separatist": * * * Additional sources for "whites-only": * * * South Africa, South African town founded by Afrikaners. It is located along the Orange River in the Karoo region o ...

. He was also the provincial leader from 2003 to 2015 of the

Freedom Front Plus The Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus or FF+; , ''VF Plus'') is a right-wing political party in South Africa that was formed (as the Freedom Front) in 1994. It is led by Corné Mulder. Since 2024, it is a part of the current South African Third Cabin ...

party in

Northern Cape province The Northern Cape ( ; ; ) is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of the Kga ...

Biography

He was born in 1963, the son of

Carel Boshoff Carel Willem Hendrik Boshoff (9 November 1927 – 16 March 2011) was a South African professor of theology and Afrikaner white nationalist. Biography Boshoff was born in Nylstroom in the Transvaal Province as the second child of Willem Sterre ...

, the founder of

. He majored in science at the

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, on which he had written a doctoral thesis in 1992 called "''Afrikaners na

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''" ("Afrikaners after Apartheid"). He is the grandson of

Hendrik Verwoerd Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (; 8 September 1901 – 6 September 1966), also known as H. F. Verwoerd, was a Dutch-born South African politician, scholar in applied psychology, philosophy, and sociology, and newspaper editor who was Prime Mini ...

Orania

Son of Orania's founder, he was the leader of the Orania movement from 2007 until 2019. In 2016, he became mayor of Orania but three years later, on 27 May 2019, he resigned due to corruption allegations, which he denied.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boshoff IV, Carel 1963 births Living people Afrikaner people Freedom Front Plus politicians Politicians from Pretoria Writers from Pretoria University of Pretoria alumni Academic staff of the University of Pretoria Orania, Northern Cape Date of birth missing (living people)

Biography

Orania

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