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T.E. Donges
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Theophilus Ebenhaezer ('Eben') Dönges (1898-1968) was a South African politician, who was elected State President of South Africa but died before he could take office.
Dr Dönges was a senior member of the National Party which ruled South Africa from 1948 to 1994. As Minister of the Interior, from 1948 to 1961, he was one of the so-called "architects of apartheid, introducing race-based population registration, and removing Coloured voters from the common voters' roll as a prelude to disfranchising them altogether. He was Minister of Finance from 1961 to 1967.
Dönges was elected State President to succeed C.R. Swart in 1967, but suffered a stroke and fell into a coma before he could take office. He died in 1968 without regaining consciousness. He received the posthumous honours granted to a former state president, i.e. a state funeral, and his effigy on the following year's coins.
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