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Gert Myburgh
South African politician (1940–1996)
Gert Benjamin Myburgh (13 January 1940 – 11 March 1996) was a South African lawyer and politician from the Eastern Cape. He served as Deputy Minister of Justice from January 1995 until his death in March 1996. He had formerly served as Deputy Minister of Law and Order from 1992 to 1994 and was a long-serving representative of the National Party (NP) in Parliament.
A lawyer by profession, Myburgh first served in Parliament from 1977 to 1981 as the representative for East London. He returned to the House of Assembly to represent a Port Elizabeth constituency from 1987 to 1994, and during that time he was appointed to F. W. de Klerk's government as Deputy Minister of Law and Order. After the abolition of apartheid in 1994, he continued as an ordinary Member of Parliament, now in the multi-racial National Assembly, until 1995, when he was appointed as Deputy Minister of Justice in the Government of National Unity.