Adriaan Zacharias Albertus "Alie" van Jaarsveld (born 28 January 1954) is a South African politician and communications strategist.
[1] His father, Ben van Jaarsveld, was a longtime employee of the National Party, the NNP's predecessor, and a self-described "apostle for the previous [apartheid] government".
[4] The Democratic Alliance said that van Jaarsveld's appointment to this government office was an example of nepotism by the NNP.
[5] They were separated by 2003 and van Jaarsveld began a relationship with an NNP parliamentary researcher.
The Van Jaarsvelds' divorce proceedings in that year received extensive media attention after Anne-Marie told the press about her husband's new relationship.