Please answer the following question: Facts: - successor: b. j. vorster jacobus johannes fouche - death date: 1967 - predecessor: charles robberts swart jan smuts - office: minister of justice minister of defence - term end: august 1961 12 december 1959 - constituency: saldhana saldhana - term start: 1959 4 june 1948 - birth date: 1896 - name: francois christiaan erasmus - nationality: south african - image: fc erasmus.jpg Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of frans erasmus .
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frans c. erasmus -lrb- 1896 - 1967 -rrb- was a south african national party politician and minister of defence from june 1948 to 1959 as well as minister of justice from 1959 - august 1961 .