Connie Mulder

Connie Mulder, born Petrus Cornelius Mulder (5 June 1925–12 January 1988, Johannesburg), was a South African politician and father of present cabinet minister and leader of the Freedom Front Plus Pieter Mulder.

He was an Afrikaans and German history professor at Rand Afrikaans University and obtained his PhD from Witwatersrand University. Mulder was a married father of four. Two of his children, Pieter and Corné Mulder followed their father into politics. Both serves as of the 2009 election in the National Assembly of South Africa as Members of Parliament for the Freedom Front Plus.

Mulder was elected to the legislature in 1958 as a National Party member, having previously served as mayor of Randfontein. John Vorster named him Information Minister in 1968. In 1977, he was implicated as namesake of the Muldergate Scandal, in which he was accused of having established a government slush fund for financing The Citizen, for the purpose of bolstering support for Vorster's regime among English-speaking South Africans. Though the scandal eventually brought about Vorster's downfall and complete retirement from politics, Mulder only barely lost the ballot to succeed him, losing the final round to Pieter Willem Botha in a narrow 72-78 vote. He subsequently was retained in Botha's reshuffling of the government.

After the founding of the Conservative Party, in which he participated, Mulder was elected to the House of Assembly in the election of 1987, now age 63. By now suffering from fatal cancer he succumbed on 12 January 1988 before being able to take his seat.

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Date of birth	1925
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Date of death	1988
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