Wouter Wessels (born 18 March 1985) is a South African politician and a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus).
Wouter Wessels Age
He was born on March 18, 1985, in East London, South Africa. As of 2024, he is 39 years old and celebrates his birthday on March 18th every year.
Wouter Wessels Wife
In 2015, he got married to Tammy Wessels who is also a politician.
Career
He worked for the FF Plus in the Free State after university. Following his nomination as a deputy minister in the cabinet of South Africa, he began working as the personal secretary to the party leader, Pieter Mulder. From 2009 to 2014, he was serving in the position for five years.
He holds the position of deputy party leader of the Free State Front Plus, and is in charge of party elections. Wessels is an elected federal councillor, as well as being an elected federal executive and national executive committee member. He was the youth leader of the FF Plus, the far-right nationalist party in South Africa.
Wessels gained elected office in 2013, when he was elected to the Free State Provincial Legislature. Following the 2014 elections, he went back to the provincial legislature. On November 2017, Pieter Mulder resigned from the House of Commons. This means that Wessels was tasked with heading to the National Assembly. Tammy sat in his place in the provincial legislature instead of him.
He was elected to the House of Commons as an MP in May 2019. He and his wife, Tammy, were both appointed to the National Assembly as members of the FF Plus. Since 22 May 2019, they have been serving together.
Wouter Wessels Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $500,000 which he has earned as a politician.