Pieter Mulder

Dr Pieter Mulder is a South African politician and the leader of the Freedom Front Plus. He was born on 26 July 1951 and grew up in Randfontein and Cape Town. He completed his high school education at the Riebeeck High School in Randfontein, where he was headboy and Victor Ludorum in athletics. The son of former cabinet minister Connie Mulder, the young Mulder first worked as a lecturer at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, before being promoted to head of the university's communications department. He represented the town of Potchefstroom in Parliament since 1988.

Prior to South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994, Mulder co-founded the Freedom Front with General Constand Viljoen, a former head of the South African Defence Force. During the elections of 1994, the Freedom Front managed to obtain nine seats in the National Assembly. This number was slashed to just four during the 1999 elections. Viljoen, who acted as leader since the party's founding, retired from politics in 2001 and left Mulder in charge.

In 2004, under Mulder's reign, the Freedom Front absorbed the Conservative Party, the Afrikaner Eenheids Beweging (Afrikaner Unity Movement), who lost its only seat in the National Assembly due to floor-crossing, and the Federale Alliansie of dr. Louis Luyt. During the elections in 2004, the FF+ managed to hold on to its four seats in the National Assembly.