Adriaan Vlok
Adriaan Vlok | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Correctional Services | |
| In office July 1991 – 1994 | |
| President | Frederik Willem de Klerk |
| Minister of Law and Order | |
| In office December 1986 – July 1991 | |
| President | Pieter Willem Botha Frederik Willem de Klerk |
| Preceded by | Louis le Grange |
| Succeeded by | Hernus Kriel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 December 1937 Sutherland, Cape Province, South Africa |
| Died | 8 January 2023 (aged 85) South Africa |
| Political party | National Party |
| Alma mater | University of Pretoria |
Adriaan Johannes Vlok (11 December 1937 – 8 January 2023) was a South African politician. He was Minister of Law and Order in South Africa from 1986 to 1991 in the final years of the apartheid era. Facing increasingly intense opposition and political unrest in this period, the South African government – through the State Security Council of which Vlok was a member – planned and implemented drastic repressive measures, including hit squads, carrying out bombings and assassination of anti-apartheid activists.