Michael Eric Beaumont (born 12 February 1985) is a South African politician and political strategist.
[2] Thereafter he attended Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape, completing a bachelor's degree and Honours in politics and environmental science.
[3] After graduating from Rhodes, Beaumont joined the management of the Democratic Alliance (DA), South Africa's largest opposition party.
[10] She said that Beaumont had driven the disciplinary process that led to her expulsion, and that the ActionSA leadership capitulated to him because it "idolises" him.
[19] Less than six months later, the DA's provincial leader, John Steenhuisen, resigned from office amid rumours that he and Kass Beaumont were having an extramarital affair.
[20] Press reported that both couples had begun divorce proceedings,[21] and Kass Beaumont remarried to Steenhuisen in 2014.