Karel Johannes Minnie (born 13 March 1954) is a South African politician from

Gauteng Gauteng ( , ; Sotho-Tswana languages, Sotho-Tswana for 'place of gold'; or ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts f ...

. He represented the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...

from 2004 to 2009. He was elected to his seat in the 2004 general election, ranked 15th on the DA's party list for Gauteng, and he served as the party's spokesperson on public service and administration. He did not stand for re-election in

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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Living people 1954 births Democratic Alliance (South Africa) politicians Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 2004–2009 {{DEFAULTSORT:Minnie, Karel