Annelizé van Wyk

Annelizé van Wyk (born 24 August 1964) is a South African politician who served in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2014, excepting a brief hiatus in 2009.

During apartheid, van Wyk was a military intelligence officer in the South African Defence Force and a supporter of the governing National Party (NP).

[3] After completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Potchefstroom, she enlisted in SADF and worked as an officer in the military intelligence division,[2] which at the time was involved in, among other things, enforcing the repression of the anti-apartheid movement.

[1] On 1 April 2003, during that year's floor-crossing window, she and five other UDM MPs, among them Salam Abram and Cedric Frolick, announced that they would resign from the party and join the governing African National Congress (ANC).

[9] When Chikunga left the committee in mid-2012 to become Deputy Minister of Transport, the ANC appointed van Wyk to serve as acting chairperson.