Louis Pienaar (26 June 1926 - 5 November 2012) was a South African lawyer and diplomat. In 1985, the apartheid government put him in charge of Namibia, in the lead-up to that country's independence in 1990. He subsequently became a minister in F W de Klerk's government until 1993.
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