Renier Schoeman | |
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| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office May 1994 – April 2004 | |
| Constituency | KwaZulu-Natal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 October 1944 Durban, Natal Union of South Africa |
| Political party | African National Congress |
| Other political affiliations | |
| Alma mater | University of Natal |
Renier Stephanus Schoeman (born 10 October 1944) is a South African politician, businessman and former civil servant who represented the National Party (NP) and New National Party (NNP) in Parliament from 1985 to 2004. He was the provincial leader of the NNP in KwaZulu-Natal from 1999 until the party's demise.
Schoeman served in the post-apartheid government as Deputy Minister of Education from 1994 to 1996 and as Deputy Minister of Health from 2002 to 2004. After failing to gain re-election in the 2004 general election, he founded and led the Progressive Business Forum, a corporate fund-raising vehicle for the African National Congress (ANC). In 2019, he was appointed to a five-year term as a Commissioner for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities.