Kobie coetsee biography

          Hendrik Jacobus Coetsee (19 April – 29 July ), known as Kobie Coetsee, was a South African lawyer, National Party politician and administrator as....

          Kobie Coetsee was born on 19 April in Ladybrand in the Orange Free State.

        1. He was South Africa's Minister of Justice under apartheid.
        2. Hendrik Jacobus Coetsee (19 April – 29 July ), known as Kobie Coetsee, was a South African lawyer, National Party politician and administrator as.
        3. Hendrik Jacobus Coetsee, known as Kobie Coetsee, was a South African lawyer, National Party politician and administrator as well as a negotiator during the country's transition to universal democracy.
        4. The former South African minister of justice Kobie Coetsee, who has died of a heart attack aged 69, opened a door in the wall of blind prejudice on which.

          5. Hendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee

          Kobie Coetsee was born on 19 April 1931 in Ladybrand in the Orange Free State. His father, Johannes, was a printer, and had only one child with is wife, Josephine, nee van Zyl.

          He went to the local primary school and matriculated from Ladybrand School in 1948 as Dux scholar and prefect.

          Following his high school career Coetsee attended the University of the Orange Free State where he completed his BA and LLB in Law, with a major in Latin, in 1954.

          He was already politically active during this time and sat on the students’ council for extra-mural studies and was elected chairman of the youth branch of the National Party (NP). On 6 October 1956 he married Helena Elizabeth Malan with whom he had 3 daughters and 2 sons.

          While qualifying as an attorney he lectured Law part-time, practising at the Side Bar for 17 years. From 1962 to 1968 Coetsee volunteered himself for military service in the President Steyn Regiment’s armoured car section, even though