Val Viljoen

Valerie Viljoen, formerly Valerie Sullivan, is a retired British–South African politician and activist. She represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 1999 and during apartheid was a member of the Black Sash in the Eastern Cape's Border Region.

Early life and career Viljoen was born in Surrey, England to a family of Liberal Party supporters. After finishing high school, she moved to London, where she completed a secretarial course, found a secretarial job in a firm, and married an engineer. She and her husband lived in Rhodesia from 1966 to 1969 while her husband was on a work assignment. Thereafter he was transferred to a post in East London in South Africa's Cape Province.

However, by the time the commission's report was published in 1993, and served there until the next general election in 1999.

Personal life Viljoen's first husband, whom she married in England, was Colin Sullivan; they had two daughters. She had another daughter with Tony Viljoen, whom she married in East London in 1980; he was the principal of East London's Cambridge High School and a United Party supporter.