Nicolaas Deetlefs du Toit is a retired South African politician now residing in

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. Du Toit was born in

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in the former

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, now the

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. He attended and matriculated from

Paarl Gimnasium Paarl Gimnasium is a public Afrikaans medium co-educational high school situated in the city of Paarl in the Western Cape province of South Africa. History Rev. van der Lingen founded the school in the centre of town in 1858. The school has p ...

in the neighbouring town of

Paarl Paarl (; ; derived from ''parel'', meaning "pearl" in Dutch) is a city with 294,457 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is the largest city in the Boland, Western Cape, Cape Winelands. Due to the growth of the Mbekweni ...

. He soon studied at

Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch University (SU) (, ) is a public research university situated in Stellenbosch, a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Stellenbosch is the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant university in Sub-Sahara ...

and obtained a BA degree in Political Science, Sociology, Geography and Economics. He, later on, achieved an Honours degree in Business Administration from the university. Du Toit worked in agriculture, poultry processing and clothing manufacturing before he became involved in local politics. He joined the Democratic Party of South Africa (DP) in 2000 and was elected to the newly established

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council in the same year. He was promoted to the post of Democratic Alliance (DA) caucus leader in 2007. He became an MP for the DA in 2009 and served as one until 2014. He served on the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration. Du Toit later defected to the Front National in October 2015, citing a policy change in the DA. He soon moved to

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Du Toit, Deetlefs Living people Democratic Alliance (South Africa) politicians Democratic Party (South Africa) politicians People from Paarl People from Worcester, South Africa South African emigrants to the United States Stellenbosch University alumni Alumni of Paarl Gimnasium Afrikaner people Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 2009–2014