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Bea Campbell-Cloete (born 26 August 1969) was born Beatrice Aletta Susanna Campbell-Young. She was born to South African Mother Aletta Sophia Campbell-Young (nee Pelser) and Scottish-Irish father Arthur Edwin Campbell-Young. Campbell-Cloete's parents Divorced when she was 5 years old. Her siblings are Geoffrey Arthur Campbell-Young, Aletta Charmaine Ungerer, Peter John Campbell-Young (now du Plessis)and half brother Duncan Campbell-Young. Campbell-Cloete's mother remarried when she was 6, to Hendrik Bernardus Du Plessis. Campbell-Cloete grew up in the small town of Bethlehem in the Free State Province of South Africa. She matriculated at Witteberg High School in 1987 and obtained a number of distinctions. She left home, giving up on a bursary to study as legal secretary and started working her way through the ranks Business. She Married Wikus Koekemoer in 1990 and the couple had three children, Stephen Willem Koekemoer (deceased), Marialett Koekemoer and Zoe Maud Koekemoer,

Campbell-Cloete entered the world of politics in 2015. She was elected as a PR councillor during the 2016 elections. She was elected as PR Councillor for the Dr Kenneth Kaunda district Municipality where she serves on the portfolio committee for District Economic Development and Tourism (which includes Sport, Arts and Culture). In October 2017, Campbell-Cloete was given the award of Top 10 Difference Maker South Africa, by the South African chapter of Difference Makers International and shortly after she was elected as the Democratic Alliance Women's Network Chairperson for the North West Province of South Africa. During the Federal Congress of the Democratic Alliance in 2018, Campbell-Cloete was elected First Additional Member for the Federal DAWN Leadership.

Campbell-Cloete has also made her mark in Business and community organisations. She was elected to sit on the board of SANKA SANPARK in Klerksdorp, North West in 2017. Prior to this, she had been nominated and was in the top 10 finalists for the Checkers/SABC Business Women of the year awards, the Top Women in business and Government Awards and was awarded Foschini/Cosmopolitan mover and shaker award, Woman of Substance Award and Institute of Credit Management (ICM) Credit Professional executive award in 2004. Campbell-Cloete served on the board of the Institute of Credit Management as well as the Business Women's Association.