Background
VILJOEN, Gerrit van Niekerk was born on September 11, 1926 in Cape Town. Son of late Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen.
VILJOEN, Gerrit van Niekerk was born on September 11, 1926 in Cape Town. Son of late Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen.
Afrikaanse Hoer Seunskool, Pretoria, University of Pretoria, King's College, Cambridge, Ryksuniversiteit, Leiden, Sorbonne.
Lecturer in Classics, University of S.A. 1955-1957, Professor 1957-1967. Administration-General Namibia (S.W. Africa) 1979-1980. Minister of National Education 1980-1984, of Co-operation and Development and (Black) Education (renamed Development Aid and Education) 1984-1986, of Development Aid and Education 1986-1989, of Constitutional Development, Planning since 1989, of National Education 1989-1990.
Rector, Rand Afrikaans University 1967-1979. Correspondent; President Classical Association of S.A. Honorary Doctor of Laws (Rand Afrikaans) 1980, Honorary D.Ed.
(Orange Free State University).
Royal Netherlands Academy, of Sciences. Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie.
Married Magdalena Maria van der Merwe in 1951.