Ferdinand Hartzenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ferdinand Hartzenberg

politician

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1936

Place of Birth: Lichtenburg, North West, South Africa

Profession: politician, farmer

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Ferdinand Hartzenberg

  • Ferdinand Hartzenberg (born 8 January 1936 in Lichtenburg) is a former South African politician and was the second and last leader of the Conservative Party in South Africa between 1993 and its merger with the Freedom Front in 2004.
  • He obtained a DSc (Agriculture) from the University of Pretoria.Originally a maize farmer from Lichtenburg in the former Transvaal, Hartzenberg was Minister of Education from 1979 to 1982 in the government of PW Botha.
  • He was then one of the more conservative members of the ruling National Party (NP).
  • Together with Andries Treurnicht and other NP members dissatisfied with increasing liberalism in the ruling NP, he left the NP in 1982 to found the right-wing Conservative Party (CP).
  • Hartzenberg became deputy leader. Hartzenberg became leader of the CP after Treurnicht's death in April 1993.
  • This made him leader of the official opposition in the white chamber of the South African Parliament, a position he held until the first non-racial elections in April 1994. The Conservative Party refused to take part in the general election of 1994 and thus lost any parliamentary representation.
  • Without any national representation, the CP became marginalised, with the white right wing represented in parliament by Constand Viljoen of the Freedom Front.
  • At the end of 2003, the CP merged with the larger Freedom Front and the Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging to form a new party known as the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) which obtained 4 seats in the general election of 2004.
  • Hartzenberg retired from politics following the merger.

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