Myburgh Streicher
{{Short description|South African politician (1928–2005)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| party = National Party (since 1977)
| citizenship = South Africa
| birth_name = Daniel Myburgh Streicher
| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|03|27|df=yes}}
| otherparty = {{plainlist|
- South African Party (1977)
- United Party (until 1977)}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2005|02|21|1928|03|27|df=yes}}
| office = Member of the National Assembly
| termstart = 1994
| termend = 1999
}}
Daniel Myburgh Streicher (27 March 1928 – 21 February 2005) was a South African politician who served in the House of Assembly and National Assembly until 1999. He was a member of the United Party and founding leader of the South African Party before he joined the National Party in 1977.
Political career
Born on 27 March 1928,{{Cite web |date=26 May 1999 |title=General Notice: Electoral Commission Notice 1113 of 1999 – Final List of Candidates |url=https://gazettes.africa/archive/za/1999/za-government-gazette-dated-1999-05-26-no-20128.pdf |access-date=9 May 2023 |website=Government Gazette of South Africa |publisher=Government of South Africa |page=242 |publication-place=Pretoria, South Africa}} Streicher was a member of the House of Assembly during apartheid. He was leader of the United Party in the Cape Province until January 1977, when he, John Wiley, and four others broke away and formed what became, in May, the South African Party.{{Cite book |last1=Hanf |first1=Theodor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugTO-eg84bcC |title=South Africa, the Prospects of Peaceful Change: An Empirical Enquiry Into the Possibility of Democratic Conflict Regulation |last2=Weiland |first2=Heribert |last3=Vierdag |first3=Gerda |date=1981 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-35394-8 |pages=101 |language=en}} Streicher was the leader of the new party.{{Cite book |last=Muller |first=C. F. J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JvwMAQAAIAAJ |title=Five Hundred Years: A History of South Africa |date=1981 |publisher=Academica |isbn=978-0-86874-091-1 |pages=520 |language=en}} After failing to gain a seat in the 1977 general election, Streicher defected to the National Party in December.{{Cite journal |last=Midlane |first=Matthew |date=1979 |title=The South African General Election of 1977 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/722147 |journal=African Affairs |volume=78 |issue=312 |pages=381 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097111 |jstor=722147 |issn=0001-9909}}
In the first post-apartheid elections in 1994, Streicher was elected to represented the National Party in the new National Assembly.{{Cite book |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/13429370/south-africa-campaign-and-election-report-april-26- |title=South Africa: Campaign and Election Report April 26–29, 1994 |publisher=International Republican Institute |year=1994 |access-date=13 April 2023 |via=Yumpu}} He served a single term: in the 1999 general election, he stood for re-election in the Western Cape constituency, but he was ranked low on the party list and did not win a seat.
References
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Category:Politicians from the Western Cape
Category:National Party (South Africa) politicians
Category:United Party (South Africa) politicians
Category:Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 1994–1999
Category:Members of the House of Assembly (South Africa)
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