Pieter Mulder

Pieter Willem Adriaan Mulder ( born July 26, 1951 in Randfontein ) is a South African politician.

He graduated from the Riebeeck High School in Randfontein and studied Communication Sciences at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, where he gained a BA in 1973 and 1976, an MA in 1978 and his doctorate. From 1974 he worked at the University as a lecturer and, after a recent work as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, from 1984 as Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Sciences.

After 1985 he was first elected to the city council of Potchefstroom, he was a member from 1988 to 1994 for the Conservative Party to the South African Parliament to. Since the first free elections after the abolition of apartheid on 27 April 1994 he represents as an MP, the newly created in March of the same year the Freedom Front, which he had co-founded. In June 2001, he assumed the presidency of the party that is conservative and positioned itself as representing the interests of the Boers in South Africa. Since May 2009 he has been Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the government of Jacob Zuma.

Pieter Mulder is married and father of one son and four daughters. He is the eldest son of Cornelius Peter Mulder, who served during the apartheid era as a member of Parliament of the National Party and as Minister for Information and for plural relations and development.