Carel Boshoff IV

Carel Boshoff IV
Carel Boshoff IV
	Carel Boshoff IV in front of the flag of Orania
President of the Orania Movement
	In office; 2007–2019
Preceded by	Carel Boshoff
Succeeded by	Joost Strydom
Personal details
Born	Carel Willem Hendrik Boshoff; 1963 (age 60–61); Pretoria, South Africa
Political party	Freedom Front Plus
Relations	Hendrik Verwoerd (grandfather); Betsie Verwoerd (grandmother); Wilhelm Verwoerd (cousin);
Parents	Carel Boshoff; Anna Verwoerd;
Alma mater	University of Pretoria
Occupation	Leader of Orania, writer
Known for	Leader of Orania

Carel Willem Hendrik Boshoff (usually written as Carel Boshoff IV), is a South African politician and writer known for being the leader of the Afrikaner-only town Orania.

He was also the provincial leader from 2003 to 2015 of the Freedom Front Plus party in Northern Cape province.

Biography

He was born in 1963, the son of Carel Boshoff, the founder of Orania.^[1] He majored in science at the University of Pretoria, on which he had written a doctoral thesis in 1992 called "Afrikaners na Apartheid" ("Afrikaners after Apartheid").^[2]^[3]

Orania

Son of Orania's founder, he was the leader of the Orania movement from 2007 until 2019.^[4] In 2016, he became mayor of Orania^[5] but three years later, on 27 May 2019, he resigned due to corruption allegations, which he denied.^[6]^[7]