Buy this book on-line GROBBELAAR, F.P. (Horwood Association copy) : The Birth of a Republic: A Saga of South AfricaPrivately Published, Vryheid Natal, 1966
A fine copy in a near fine spinedarkened d.w. INSCRIBED presentation copy, with accompanying ALS dated 17.3.1969, to Owen Horwood. Owen Pieter Faure Horwood (6 Dec 1916, - 13 September 1998[ was a South African politician, leader of the National Party in the province of Natal and Finance Minister 1975 to 1984 . Principal of the University of Natal, he entered politics in 1966 when he was appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister John Vorster . He was professor of economics on the Durban campus of the University of Natal and became principal and vice-chancellor from 1965. He was also an adviser on economic affairs to the government of Lesotho. In 1970 he resigned from the university to take up a seat as a Natal-based senator. The then prime minister B.J. Vorster appointed him to the cabinet as Minister of Tourism and Indian affairs in 1972. He was elected leader of the National Party in Natal and held that position until 1984. In 1974 he was appointed Minister of Trade and Industry, and in February 1975 Minister of Finance. On his retirement from politics he held the position of executive chairman of Nedbank until 1993. He retired from politics in 1984 and moved from Gauteng to Stellenbosch during 1997. Horwood died of a heart attack in 1998 in Stellenbosch. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of GROBBELAAR, F.P. (Horwood Association copy) : The Birth of a Republic: A Saga of South Africa. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including incunabula, antiquarian books, first editions, livres illustrées and collectables. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |