André Fourie

{{Infobox officeholder | party = National Party<br />New National Party | citizenship = South Africa | birth_name = Andrew Fourie | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|03|15|df=yes}} }}

'''Andrew Fourie''' (born 15 March 1944),<ref name=":022">{{Cite web |date=26 May 1999 |title=General Notice: Electoral Commission Notice 1113 of 1999 – Final List of Candidates |url=https://gazettes.africa/archive/za/1999/za-government-gazette-dated-1999-05-26-no-20128.pdf |access-date=9 May 2023 |website=Government Gazette of South Africa |publisher=Government of South Africa |page=242 |publication-place=Pretoria, South Africa}}</ref> commonly known as '''André Fourie''', is a retired South African politician who represented the National Party in the National Assembly during the first democratic Parliament from 1994 to 1999. He was elected in the 1994 general election<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/13429370/south-africa-campaign-and-election-report-april-26- |title=South Africa: Campaign and Election Report April 26–29, 1994 |publisher=International Republican Institute |year=1994 |access-date=13 April 2023 |via=Yumpu}}</ref> and served on the Constitutional Committee that negotiated the 1996 South African Constitution.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-01 |title=Constitutional Committee |url=https://ourconstitution.wethepeoplesa.org/constitutional-committee/ |access-date=2023-06-16 |website=Our Constitution |language=en-US}}</ref> He was also the leader of the NP's Northern Province branch.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tempelhoff |first=Johann W. N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vvswAQAAIAAJ |title=Townspeople of the Soutpansberg: A Centenary History of Louis Trichardt 1899-1999 |date=1999 |publisher=The Council |isbn=978-0-620-23815-1 |pages=354 |language=en}}</ref>

The ''Mail & Guardian'' described Fourie as "one of Parliament's less popular members".<ref>{{Cite web |date=1999-03-26 |title=Take a bow for the new South Africa |url=https://mg.co.za/article/1999-03-26-take-a-bow-for-the-new-south-africa/ |access-date=2023-06-16 |website=The Mail & Guardian |language=en-ZA}}</ref> He stood for re-election in 1999, ranked first on the New National Party's Northern Province party list,<ref name=":022" /> but he was not re-elected.

During apartheid, Fourie was Minister of Regional and Land Affairs in the cabinet of President F. W. de Klerk.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lynd |first=Hilary |date=2021-04-03 |title=The Peace Deal: The Formation of the Ingonyama Trust and the IFP Decision to Join South Africa's 1994 Elections |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02582473.2021.1909116 |journal=South African Historical Journal |language=en |volume=73 |issue=2 |pages=318–360 |doi=10.1080/02582473.2021.1909116 |s2cid=236389402 |issn=0258-2473|doi-access=free }}</ref>

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*[https://web.archive.org/web/19981202114938/http://www.parliament.gov.za/mps/fourie_a.html André Fourie] at Parliament of South Africa Category:Living people Category:1944 births Category:National Party (South Africa) politicians Category:Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 1994–1999 {{DEFAULTSORT:Fourie, André}} Category:Members of the House of Assembly (South Africa)