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He was a relatively moderate member of the National Party , that instituted the Apartheid regime. He was married on 20 April 1940 to Dorothea Maria (Marietjie) Brink ( 17 September 1917 – 6 October 2005 ). He was the youngest child of six children. He had one daughter from his marriage, and she in turn had one son. He worked in the Post Office, and there after at a newspaper, Die Transvaler, before becoming permanently involved with politics. He was the last non-executive State President of South Africa. The 1983 South African Constitution changed the status of the President to one exercising executive power. |
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