Jan de Villiers
Jan Naudé de Villiers (born 6 March 1980) is a South African politician who has served in the National Assembly of South Africa. A member of the Democratic Alliance, he is currently serving as the Shadow Minister of Small Business Development. He previously held the post of Shadow Minister on the Auditor-General. Education. De Villiers holds a Bachelor of Arts in humanity studies from the University of Stellenbosch. Political career. Prior to his election to parliament, De Villiers was a DA councillor and a member of the mayoral committee in the Stellenbosch Local Municipality. De Villiers  stood as a DA parliamentary candidate from the Western Cape in the 2019 national elections, and was subsequently elected to the National Assembly and sworn in on 22 May 2019. On 5 June 2019, he was appointed by the DA parliamentary leader, Mmusi Maimane, as Shadow Minister of the Auditor-General, succeeding Alan McLoughlin, who retired from politics. Later that month, he became a member of the Standing Committee on Auditor-General. Maimane resigned as DA leader in October 2019 and John Steenhuisen was voted in as his interim successor in November 2019. He temporarily retained Maimane's shadow cabinet . After Steenhuisen was elected leader for a full term at the 2020 Democratic Alliance Federal Congress, he announced his Shadow Cabinet on 5 December 2020, in which De Villiers was appointed as Shadow Minister of Small Business Development, succeeding Zakhele Mbhele. On 7 December, he became a member of the Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development. In the 2020 Register of Members’ Interests, de Villiers declared that he was a director of two property investment companies. He also disclosed that he was a co-owner of the Eikestad Mall in Stellenbosch and has the benefit of free parking at the  shopping centre.