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South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist (1915 - 2004)

Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé (10 May 1915 – 7 September 2004) was a South African Afrikaner CalvinistDominee, theologian and the leading Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist.^[1] He was known simply as Beyers Naudé, or more colloquially, Oom Bey (Afrikaans for "Uncle Bey").

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Early life and education

One of eight children, Beyers Naudé was born to Jozua François Naudé and Adriana Johanna Naudé (née) van Huyssteen in Roodepoort, Transvaal (now Gauteng). The progenitor of the Naudé name was a French Huguenot refugee named Jacques Naudé who arrived in the Cape in 1718.^[2] The Naudé surname is one of numerous French surnames that retained their original spelling in South Africa.

Beyers Naudé was named after General Christiaan Frederick Beyers, under whom his father had served as a soldier and unofficial military chaplain during the second Anglo-Boer War.