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B. J. Vorster
Politician
Afrikaner [Dutch, German, French, small amounts of Belgian Flemish and Walloon, as well as Swiss-German], small amounts of Danish, Indonesian, Indian, Norwegian, African [Angolan, Guinean], remote Chinese
Jamestown, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
F. W. de Klerk
Politician
Afrikaner (Austrian, Belgian [Flemish, Walloon], Dutch, French, German, Swiss-French, Swiss-German), remote African (including Khoikhoi), Danish, Indian, Indonesian, and Malagasy
Johannesburg, Transvaal, Union of South Africa
Jim Fouché
Politician
Afrikaner [German, Dutch, Belgian Flemish, French Huguenot, Danish, Swiss-German, Portuguese], small amounts of African [Angolan, Khoikhoi, Ethiopian], Indian [Malayali, Bengali], English, remote Timorese, Malagasy, Indonesian, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, and Swiss-French
Wepener, Orange Free State, South Africa
Johannes de Klerk
Politician
Afrikaner (Belgian [both Flemish and Walloon], Dutch, French, German, Swiss-French, Swiss-German), remote African (including Khoikhoi), Danish, Indian, Indonesian, and Malagasy
Burgersdorp, Cape Colony (now South Africa)
Justin Trudeau
Politician
French-Canadian (approximately 3/8ths), Scottish, English, as well as distant Irish and Dutch, 1/256th Malaysian, 1/256th Indonesian
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Marais Viljoen
Politician
Afrikaner [French, some German and Dutch, more distant Belgian Walloon and Flemish, remote Swiss-German], small amount of African [Angolan, Guinean, Mozambican, Khoikhoi], remote Indonesian, Indian, and Danish
Robertson, Cape Province, Union of South Africa (now Western Cape)
Nick Clegg
Politician
* paternal grandfather – English * paternal grandmother – German, Ukrainian, Russian, smaller amounts of Polish · Mother: Dutch, as well as remote German
Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, U.K.
P. W. Botha
Politician
Afrikaner (Belgian [both Flemish and Walloon], Dutch, German, Swiss-German), remote African, Danish, English, Indian, Indonesian, and Norwegian
Paul Roux, Orange Free State Province, South Africa
Yusof Ishak
Politician
Father: Indonesian Minangkabau, one eighth Hui Chinese · Mother: Malay, Afghan
Terong, Taiping, Perak, Federated Malay States (now Malaysia)