successor birth_place president nationality office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name alma_mater
hernus kriel sutherland , northern cape frederik willem de klerk pieter willem botha south african minister of correctional services minister of law and order 11 december 1937 july 1991 december 1986 adriaan vlok
 1994 july 1991 adriaan vlok university of pretoria
adriaan vlok

adriaan johannes vlok -lrb- born 11 december 1937 in sutherland , northern cape -rrb- 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 .
he obtained dip proc from the university of pretoria in 1962 .
