Background
Anchen Dreyer grew up in what used to be the Transvaal, attended primary school in the small town of Brits, and matriculated at Voortrekkerhoogte Hoёrskool in 1969.
Anchen Dreyer grew up in what used to be the Transvaal, attended primary school in the small town of Brits, and matriculated at Voortrekkerhoogte Hoёrskool in 1969.
Rand Afrikaans University.
Before being elected unnopposed to this position on 26 May 2014 she was first the Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises and thereafter the Shadow Minister of Public Works. She obtained her teritary education at the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) obtaining the following degrees: Bachelor, 1973. Bachelor Honors in Sociology, 1977.
Bachelor Honors in Psychology, 1981.
And Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, 1983. She registered as a clinical psychologist with the South African Medical and Dental Council in 1983 and thereafter worked as a clinical psychologist in both Auckland Park and Santon, Johannesburg, from 1983 to 1988.
She established and managed a successful private practice as a clinical psychologist in Meliville, Johannesburg, from 1988 to 1994. She now considers herself a retired clinical psychologist and a full-time politician.
She served as Democratic Party (South Africa) councillor in Johannesburg City Council from 1991 to 1994, and as caucus leader in the Johannesburg Metropolitan Council from 1995 to 1997.
She assumed office as the Democratic Alliance Gauteng provincial deputy chairperson from 2003 to 2004, and thereafter acted as District Attorney media spokesperson at the election head office in Johannesburg, February to April 2004. Her constituency is the Mogale City municipal area. She was re-elected to Parliament in 2009 and was appointed as the Shadow Minister of Public Service and Administration and has been Shadow Minister for Public Works since 2012.
She has also served the party as a whip since 2005.
She started her political life as a volunteer for the Progressive Federal Party in 1978.
She completed a five year term as a Democratic Alliance member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in Johannesburg, serving initially as the spokesperson for agriculture, conservation, environment and land affairs, and was later elected as caucus whip from 1999 to 2002. In 2005, she became a Democratic Alliance Member of Parliament, where she served the party as a whip and the spokesperson on Labour.