1. Louis Alexander Pienaar was a South African lawyer and diplomat.
13 Facts About Louis Pienaar
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Louis Pienaar was the last white Administrator of South-West Africa, from 1985 through Namibian independence in 1990.
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Louis Pienaar married Isabel Maud van Niekerk on 11 December 1954.
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On 1 July 1985, Louis Pienaar was appointed by the National Party government to be the Administrator-General of South-West Africa, a territory that the United Nations Security Council called Namibia and which UNSC Resolution 435 of 1978 declared was being administered illegally by South Africa.
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Louis Pienaar was killed on flight Pan Am 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland on 21 December 1988 en route from London to New York.
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Botha overruled AG Louis Pienaar's statement saying "there is no question of interrogation".
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On 22 May, AG Louis Pienaar proclaimed AG 11 of 1989: "Establishment and Powers of the Commission for the Prevention and Combatting of Intimidation and Electoral Malpractices".
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On 13 October, AG Louis Pienaar proclaimed AG 49 of 1989: "The Holding of an Election for a Constituent Assembly".
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Louis Pienaar justified the expenditure on the grounds that South Africa was at war with SWAPO at the time.
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AG Louis Pienaar formally handed over power to the president of SWAPO, Sam Nujoma, who was then sworn in as the first President of Namibia.
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In 1990, on his return to South Africa, Louis Pienaar was nominated to be the Minister of Education in President F W de Klerk's government, where he was to be responsible for the dismantling of the structures of apartheid.
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From May 1992 until April 1993, Louis Pienaar was the Minister for Internal Affairs.
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Louis Pienaar died at his residence in Cape Town on 5 November 2012.