{{Short description|South African politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | party = {{plainlist| *African National Congress (since 2005) *New National Party (until 2005)}} | office1 = Member of the National Assembly | term_start1 = June 1999 | term_end1 = May 2009 | citizenship = South Africa | constituency1 = Western Cape }}
'''Carl Heinrich Friederich Greyling''' is a South African politician who represented the Western Cape in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2009. He was the chief whip of the New National Party (NNP) until September 2005, when he crossed the floor to the African National Congress (ANC).
== Legislative career == In the 1999 general election, Greyling was elected to an NNP seat in the National Assembly, representing the Western Cape constituency.<ref name=":022">{{cite magazine |date=11 June 1999 |title=General Notice: Notice 1319 of 1999 – Electoral Commission: Representatives Elected to the Various Legislatures |url=https://gazettes.africa/archive/za/1999/za-government-gazette-dated-1999-06-11-no-20203.pdf |magazine=Government Gazette of South Africa |location=Pretoria, South Africa |publisher=Government of South Africa |volume=408 |issue=20203 |pages= |access-date=26 March 2021}}</ref> He was re-elected to his seat in the 2004 general election<ref>{{Cite web |date=2004-04-20 |title=Few surprises on candidates lists |url=https://mg.co.za/article/2004-04-20-few-surprises-on-candidates-lists/ |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=The Mail & Guardian |language=en-ZA}}</ref> and served as the NNP's chief whip in the assembly.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 October 2004 |title=ANC Caucus Welcomes Its New NNP Converts |work=Business Day |url=https://allafrica.com/stories/200410290175.html |access-date=9 April 2023 |via=allAfrica}}</ref>
Months after the election, in October 2004, he and seven other NNP members announced that they intended to defect from the party to the ANC during the next floor-crossing period. Greyling said that he had made his decision in consultation with local party members and after studying the Freedom Charter and the national Constitution.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2004-10-28 |title=Eight NNP MPs to defect to ANC |url=https://mg.co.za/article/2004-10-28-eight-nnp-mps-to-defect-anc/ |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=The Mail & Guardian |language=en-ZA}}</ref> He officially remained an NNP member until 1 September 2005, when, at the outset of the 2005 floor-crossing window, he formally joined the ANC.<ref name=":03">{{Cite web |date=2009-01-15 |title=National Assembly Members |url=http://www.pmg.org.za/parlinfo/nalist#_ftnref87 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514071402/http://www.pmg.org.za/parlinfo/nalist#_ftnref87 |archive-date=14 May 2009 |access-date=2023-04-08 |website=Parliamentary Monitoring Group}}</ref>
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