Assistant of Hendrik Verwoerd and Director of the South African Information Office under both Verwoerd and, later, Balthazar Johannes Vorster.
Pompies was born in Krugersdorp, South Africa, on 1 July 1923. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch, where he obtained his Masters degree in Social Science in 1945.
Pompies died, aged 80, in Cape Town, South Africa, on July 12, 2004.
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