Tini Vorster (née Malan; sometimes spelled Tienie Vorster; 21 August 1917 – 14 September 2000) was the wife of South Africa's Prime Minister and State President John Vorster.
Martini Steyn Malan was born in Worcester and married future president John Vorster in 1941. They had three children: a daughter Elsa, and two sons, Willem and Pieter. Pieter died of chickenpox at the age of 31.[1]
In 1990 she received the D.F. Malan medal from the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap, Kuns en Kultuur (literally South African Academy for Science, Arts and Culture) for work of the highest quality in promoting Afrikaans culture. A British newspaper at the time wrote that if she had been born in a different era that she could have been prime minister herself.
Vorster was an honorary citizen of Kareedouw, the closest town to "Oubos" where she and her husband retired. In 1987, former president P.W. Botha awarded her with the Order for Distinguished Service.
Tini died at a retirement home in the Strand on 14 September2000, at the age of 83. She had been bedridden for six months prior to her death. Vorster was survived by her son Willem, daughter Elsa, 10 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.[3]
The Afrikaans-medium primary school Tini Vorster in Nigel is named after her, while the Zanele Mbeki retirement home in Dunnottar was previously known as the "Tienie Vorster-tehuis".
Four premiers' wives at the National Party's 20th anniversary congress in Parow in 1968: Betsie Verwoerd, Susan Strijdom, Tini Vorster and Maria Malan.
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^"BJ Vorster en sy gesin" (PDF) (in Afrikaans). 2012-03-29. (PDF) from the original on 2012-03-29. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
^van Deventer, Hennie (May 12, 2021). "Sy was 'n rots" (in Afrikaans).
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