Dawie de Villiers, his incredible sporting career notwithstanding, is also being remembered for his political career spanning decades, which saw him serve in ministerial roles during apartheid and in democratic South Africa. | ZintleMahlati
Zintle MahlatiDawie de Villiers during the opening ceremony of the Springbok Experience museum at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town on 27 March 2013. De Villiers, who died on Saturday, served in various ministerial roles in the apartheid government and in former president Nelson Mandela's post-1994 Cabinet.
He was a lecturer in philosophy at the Rand Afrikaans University in the 1970s until he was persuaded to explore a political career. He remembered his former colleague as a man who was against the"impact of the apartheid government" despite serving in various roles within that regime. Dawie was always on the side, in the internal squabbles of the National Party, of the camp that advanced transformation and democratisation. He was a known trouble-maker at the time. There was no doubt, at the time, that he was deeply disturbed by the tragedies in South Africa and the hardships inflicted by the regime at the time.
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