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Authorized form of name
Wessels, Leon
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- Wessels, Leon (Doctor)
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Dates of existence
1946-
History
Politician. Served as deputy minister of law and order and minister of local government, national housing and manpower in apartheid governments. Elected to parliament in the first democratic election, and acted as deputy chair of the constitutional assembly which drafted the new constitution. In 1999 he was appointed to the South African Human Rights Commission
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Authority record identifier
ZA-COM-04344
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