Meyer was born on 22 January 1909 in Ladybrand, Orange Free state, South Africa.
He studied at the Vrije universiteit in Amsterdam and completed his PhD at the University of South Africa in 1937.
At his retirement from the corporation it broadcast 1050 hours per week and had radio stations most indigenous languages.
He worked with Dr Albert Hertzog in the 1930s (as member of the National Party) to make sure that the Afrikaner mineworkers find a place in the trade unions.
Meyer was the second chairman of this committee replacing Diederichs, N.J.[1][11][12] He was also a writer of books on history of the Afrikaner.
[1] A bronze bust of him was erected in the foyer of the SABC’s head office building in Auckland Park Johannesburg, but it was later removed.