Education
University of Cape Town.
University of Cape Town.
The latter included Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. During the constitutional negotiations on a democratic South Africa, Camerer was employed to lead the Natural Philosophy in drafting a Bill of Rights. Later she became a prominent spokesperson for the party in parliament, and served shortly as deputy justice minister after 1994 until De Klerk decided to suspend the party"s participation in the Government of National Unity (GNU).
In 1997, she became leader of the Natural Philosophy in the National Assembly, the first-ever woman and English-speaker in the party"s history to hold the post.
Camerer was seen as opposing the withdrawal of the now renamed New National Party (NNP) from the Democratic Alliance (District Attorney) in 2001, but remained an NNP member until 2003 when newly promulgated legislation allowed her to defect to the District Attorney without losing her parliamentary seat. In November 2006 Camerer voted in favour of legislation permitting homosexual civil unions.
After the South African general election, 2009 Camerer was appointed as Ambassador to Bulgaria. In March 2013 Camerer completed her term as ambassador and is currently retired.
Although Camerer"s father, Robert Badenhorst-Durandt had been a Member of Parliament for the ruling National Party (Natural Philosophy), as a young lawyer in the mid-1970s she worked on the legal defence strategies of anti-apartheid activists, including that of the Soweto Committee of Ten. She joined the Natural Philosophy herself and in 1982 was elected Natural Philosophy member of the Johannesburg City Council. In 1987 she was elected Member of Parliament for the Johannesburg constituency of Rosettenville and two years later appointed deputy justice minister in the government of reformist Natural Philosophy leader and South African president FW de Klerk.