Veronica de Klerk

Who is Veronica de Klerk?

Veronica Cecilia de Klerk is a Namibian women's rights activist and former media personality. She was the Executive Director of Women’s Action for Development, an NGO which advocates for the rights of disadvantaged women and men in Namibia. De Klerk was a campaigner for the opposition Democratic Turnhalle Alliance in the early 1990s until breaking with the party in 1995.

De Klerk grew up in Windhoek, the island territory of St. Helena and in South Africa. She was a television personality during the 1980s on the South West African Broadcasting Corporation prior to independence in 1990.