Junita Carolina Kloppers-Lourens (born in Vanderbijlpark) is a South African politician and former educationist, a Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance (DA).
She started off as matric teacher (for which she received a merit award), became lecturer at two teacher training colleges, was appointed as scrutinizer/evaluator of manuscripts for text books, and occupied the post of a chief examiner for the Senior Certificate Examinations of the former Transvaal Education Department for many years.
Kloppers-Lourens was also responsible for the compilation and presentation of radio programmes for the SABC on the core syllabus for History for several years.
[4] She left parliament in 2014, but was later elected as a DA ward councillor in Overstrand Municipality in September 2015.
[5] She lives in Brooklyn, Pretoria and acts as the political head of Constituency 3 of the Gauteng North region.