Conservative Party leader, Dr Andries Treurnicht, dies in Cape Town.

Dr Andries Treurnicht was born on 19 February 1921 on Middelpos farm in Piketberg, Western Cape. In 1942 he enrolled at the University of Stellenbosch where he became the member of the Student Representative Council (SRC) and chairman of the Students Christian Association (SCA). In 1946 he was appointment Minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and appointed the travelling secretary for the SCA. He completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Cape Town. He was married to Engela Dreyer, they had four daughters.   On 22 April 1993 Treurnicht passed away in a Cape Town hospital where he was admitted for  a heart bypass operation. It was mentioned that Treurnicht’s death had been accelerated by the arrest of the Conservative Party Stalwart Clive Derby-Lewis in connection with the assassination of Chris Hani.   A few months before he died, he participated in the Multi-party constitutional talks with the ANC and its South African Communist Party allies.