Theo Diergaardt

Diergaardt grew up in Rehoboth and attended school there at Dr Lemmer High School. He graduated from Peninsula Technikon with a Diploma in Cost and Management Accounting. Afterwards he obtained a Higher Diploma and a master's degree in the same discipline from Technicon SA, a distance university.^[1]

Diergaardt was a SWAPO politician. He was the Regional Councillor for the Rehoboth Urban West constituency and a member of the National Council of Namibia as a representative of Hardap Region, both from 2004^[1] to 2015.^[2][3] In January 2011 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Lands and Resettlement,^[4] and in March 2015 he was appointed one of two Deputy Ministers of Agriculture, Water and Forestry.^[5]

Diergaardt died, aged 50, after a short illness in Windhoek on 22 July 2020.^[6]