 Barend du Plessis

Barend Jacobus du Plessis (born 19 January 1940 in Johannesburg) is a South African politician and a former member of the now-dissolved National Party, as well as Minister of Finance in 1984–1992.He grew up in Boksburg where he began his education at Pioneer Primary School and matriculated at Voortrekker High School in 1956.