Jacobus Tertius Delport (16 October 1939 – 21 November 2023) was a South African academic, lawyer, and politician.
Delport was born into an Afrikaner family on 16 October 1939 in Humansdorp in the Union of South Africa's Cape Province.
[1] In 1990, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development by president F.W.
Delport was the government's chief spokesperson as well as a negotiator at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa which brought an end to the apartheid system and white minority rule in South Africa.
[1] In 2007, he stood for leader of the DA's caucus in the National Assembly but was defeated by fellow Afrikaner MP Sandra Botha.
[5] In February 2009, Delport called for the reinstatement of suspended National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli.
[6] Delport did not stand for re-election to the National Assembly at that year's general election and retired from politics.
[7] DA Eastern Cape provincial leader Andrew Whitfield paid tribute to him.