Louis Pienaar
| Louis Pienaar | |
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| Minister of Environmental Affairs | |
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In office 1990–1993 |
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| President | FW de Klerk |
| Preceded by | Gert Kotzé |
| Succeeded by | Japie van Wyk |
| Minister of Internal Affairs | |
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In office 1992–1993 |
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| Preceded by | Gene Louw |
| Succeeded by | Danie Schutte |
| Minister of Education | |
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In office 1990–1992 |
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| President | FW de Klerk |
| Preceded by | Gene Louw |
| Succeeded by | Piet Marais |
| Administrator-General of South West Africa | |
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In office 1 July 1985 – 21 March 1990 |
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| Preceded by | Willie van Niekerk |
| Succeeded by | Post fell away on Namibian independence |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 June 1926 |
| Died | 5 November 2012 (aged 86) Cape Town, South Africa |
Louis Pienaar (26 June 1926 – 5 November 2012) was a South African lawyer and diplomat. He was the last white administrator of South-West Africa, from 1985 through Namibian independence in 1990. Pienaar later served as a minister in F W de Klerk's government until 1993.
In the early 1980s, Louis Pienaar was assigned to Paris as South Africa's ambassador to France.
On 1 July 1985, Pienaar was appointed by the National Party government to be Administrator-General (AG) 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. Two years after AG Pienaar's appointment, when prospects for Namibian independence seemed to be improving, UN Commissioner for Namibia (UNCN) Bernt Carlsson, was appointed. Upon South Africa's relinquishing control of Namibia, Commissioner Carlsson's role would be to take over the administration of the country on behalf of the UN, formulate its framework constitution, and organise free and fair elections based upon a non-racial universal franchise.
In May 1988, a United States mediation team – headed by Chester A. Crocker, US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs – brought negotiators from Angola, Cuba, and South Africa, and observers from the Soviet Union together in London. Later in May, at the Reagan/Gorbachev summit in Moscow (29 May – 1 June 1988), it was decided that Cuban troops would be withdrawn from Angola, and Soviet military aid would cease, as soon as South Africa withdrew from Namibia. The New York Accords – agreements to give effect to these decisions – were drawn up for signature at UN headquarters in New York City in December 1988. Cuba, South Africa, and the People's Republic of Angola agreed to a total Cuban troop withdrawal from Angola. This agreement – known as the Brazzaville Protocol – established a Joint Monitoring Commission (JMC), with the US and the Soviet Union as observers, to oversee implementation of the accords. A bilateral agreement between Cuba and Angola was signed at UN headquarters on 22 December 1988. On the same day, a tripartite agreement between Angola, Cuba and South Africa was signed, whereby South Africa agreed to hand control of Namibia to the United Nations.
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