Jan de Villiers

Jan Naudé de Villiers (born 6 March 1980) is a South African politician who has served in the National Assembly of South Africa for the Democratic Alliance since 2019. He was elected to chair the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration in July 2024. Within the DA's Shadow Cabinet, he held the posts of Shadow Minister on the Auditor-General and as Shadow Minister of Small Business Development.

Education
De Villiers holds a Bachelor of Arts in humanity studies from the University of Stellenbosch.

Political career
Prior to his election to parliament, De Villiers was a DA councillor and a member of the mayoral committee in the Stellenbosch Local Municipality.

De Villiers stood as a DA parliamentary candidate from the Western Cape in the 2019 national elections, and was subsequently elected to the National Assembly and sworn in on 22 May 2019. On 5 June 2019, he was appointed by the DA parliamentary leader, Mmusi Maimane, as Shadow Minister of the Auditor-General, succeeding Alan McLoughlin, who retired from politics. Later that month, he became a member of the Standing Committee on Auditor-General.

Maimane resigned as DA leader in October 2019 and John Steenhuisen was voted in as his interim successor in November 2019. He temporarily retained Maimane's shadow cabinet. After Steenhuisen was elected leader for a full term at the 2020 Democratic Alliance Federal Congress, he announced his Shadow Cabinet on 5 December 2020, in which De Villiers was appointed as Shadow Minister of Small Business Development, succeeding Zakhele Mbhele. On 7 December, he became a member of the Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development.

In the 2020 Register of Members’ Interests, de Villiers declared that he was a director of two property investment companies. He also disclosed that he was a co-owner of the Eikestad Mall in Stellenbosch and has the benefit of free parking at the shopping centre.

Having been re-elected to Parliament in the 2024 general election, he was elected to chair the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration in July 2024.