1. Leon Amos Schreiber was born on 11 September 1988 and is a South African writer and politician who is currently serving as Minister of Home Affairs since 3 July 2024.
16 Facts About Leon Schreiber
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Leon Schreiber is a prominent advocate for Afrikaans language rights at Stellenbosch University.
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Leon Schreiber matriculated in 2006 at the Paul Roos Gymnasium in Stellenbosch.
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Leon Schreiber's dissertation was about social welfare institutions in South Africa and Brazil.
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Between 2015 and 2019, Leon Schreiber was attached to Princeton University, where he was a senior research specialist in the Innovations for Successful Societies programme.
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Leon Schreiber later said that his political career grew from his recognition, through his research, of the importance of ethical political leadership in ensuring good governance.
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Leon Schreiber retained that position throughout the Sixth Parliament, gaining reappointment in the shadow cabinet of Maimane's successor, John Steenhuisen, in 2020.
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Leon Schreiber was appointed to the Section 194 Enquiry into Busisiwe Mkhwebane's impeachment as Public Protector.
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Leon Schreiber said that, based on the DA's analysis of the minutes, cadre deployment had continued "unabated" under the incumbent President, Cyril Ramaphosa.
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Leon Schreiber led the DA's campaign to gain access to further records from the ANC cadre deployment committee.
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Leon Schreiber congratulated his party on "piercing the ANC's veil of cadre secrets", saying that, "the ANC has been forced to bend the knee before the DA".
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Leon Schreiber's DA constituency was Stellenbosch, and during the parliamentary term he was a prominent activist in connection with ongoing debate about Stellenbosch University's language policy.
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Leon Schreiber accused the university administration, under Rector Wim de Villiers, of being "anti-Afrikaans".
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Also in early 2021, Leon Schreiber led the DA in filing a complaint against Stellenbosch University with the South African Human Rights Commission, alleging that it was a rights violation for the university's residences to institute rules prohibiting conversations in Afrikaans in certain common spaces.
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Leon Schreiber was re-elected to his seat in the National Assembly in the May 2024 general election, ranked 16th on the DA's national party list.
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Leon Schreiber expressed support for improving access to visas for skilled immigrants, as well as for a "zero tolerance" approach to corruption.