Alwyn Schlebusch

Alwyn Louis Schlebusch ( born September 16, 1917 in Lady Grey, † January 7, 2008 in Pretoria) was a South African politician of the National Party. He had numerous ministerial posts held in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s and was from 1981 to 1984 the only Vice- President ( vice president state ) in the country's history.

His political career began in the 1940s as mayor of Henneman in the then Orange Free State. From 1962 to 1980 he was a deputy in the Parliament of South Africa, which he chaired from 1974 to 1976 as President of the Parliament ( "Speaker " ) for the constituency of Kroonstad.

He was chairman of the " Schlebusch Commission" (Commission of Inquiry into Certain Organisations), which drew up a law that the government has paved the way organizations attribute a negative attitude and exclude these from any international financial transfers and confiscate their assets in South Africa 1972. Best-known organizations concerned were the National Union of South African Students and the well-known Christian Institute.

1976 Schlebusch was Minister of Public Works and Immigration in the government of Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 1978, he was Minister of the Interior, Minister of Justice in 1979 in addition and briefly Minister of racial matters. In 1980 he headed a government commission on the reform of the South African state system. She suggested a departure from the two-chambered Westminster system to a system with a strong president with executive powers and a Presidential Council of 60 appointed members, in the - was the first time provided since the beginning of apartheid, the participation of colored and Indian- South Africans ( - to the exclusion of blacks Republic of South African Constitution Fifth Amendment Act, Act No. 101/ 1980). His proposal paved the way for the three-chamber system with the 1984 Constitution came into force .. In the transitional phase, he was as a representative of the Boers Deputy President, 1984, however, this office fell off. But he remained as head of the Presidential Office (Minister in the Office of the President ) Member of the Government.

Schlebusch came from an Afrikaner family, which is traceable to a emigriertes to South Africa member of the family of Schlebusch, eponym of Leverkusen -Schlebusch. He was widowed in 1996 and had a son and two daughters.