Arron Cecil "Butch" Steyn is a South African politician, and a former Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance, and the Shadow Minister of Human Settlements from 2004 to 2012.

During his professional life, he specialised in the design of high rise structures such as office blocks, hotels, shopping centres, casinos and multi-storey apartment buildings.

[1] Butch was elected to the National Assembly in April 2004 and also served as a Democratic Alliance representative in the Gauteng Legislature from 1999 to 2004.

[1] Steyn left parliament after the 2014 general election, but eventually returned to politics in November 2019, when he was sworn in as a PR councillor for the DA in Johannesburg.

[2] Butch Steyn has been a vocal critic of lack of oversight and monitoring in the Department of Human Settlements regarding the allocation of tenders and quality of work of contractors in the building of formal housing.