Johan de Waal

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Johan de Waal
Chairperson of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance
In office
2000 –March 2010
Personal details
Born (1949-09-17) 17 September 1949 (age 74)
Pretoria, South Africa
Nationality Namibian
Political party DTA
Residence Windhoek
Alma mater University of Pretoria
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionFarmer

Johan Claasen de Waal (born 17 September 1949 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a Namibian politician. A member of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), de Waal was a member of the National Assembly of Namibia from 1994 to 2010. [1] De Waal was placed third on DTA's electoral list ahead of the 2009 general election but lost his seat in the National Assembly after DTA received enough votes for 2 legislators. [2] He resigned as chairperson of DTA in March 2010, citing a need to "move on" and make way for a younger generation. [3] Since then he has focused on business operations. [4]

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Career

De Waal was born in September 1949 in South Africa, but moved with his family to Namibia in the same year of his birth. He received a B.Comm. from the University of Pretoria in 1971. In 1976, he was a founding member of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance and Secretary of Information. He was a leading member of the Republican Party of Namibia, a member of the alliance, until it broke with the DTA in 2003. In that year, de Waal, Barbara Rattay and Pieter Boltman formed the Alliance for Democratic Change, which maintained links with DTA. In March 2005, the DTA re-elected de Waal as party chairperson. [5] While in the National Assembly, de Waal was the party's main spokesperson for trade and financial affairs. [3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Profile Archived 2003-09-11 at the Wayback Machine at parliament.gov.na
  2. ↑ Who's in, who's out The Namibian , 7 December 2009
  3. 1 2 De Waal resigns from DTA The Namibian , 26 March 2010
  4. ↑ Tonchi et al. 2012, p. 81.
  5. ↑ Johan Claasen de Waal Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine at the Namibia Institute for Democracy

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