Elder Dwayne J. van Heerden was named an Area Seventy and a member of the Third Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the April 2024 general conference.
Elder van Heerden has served in a number of Church callings, including full-time missionary in the England Birmingham and London Missions, bishop, elders quorum president, and stake president.
Elder van Heerden studied law at the University of Fort Hare until 2004. He is currently studying business management and accounting at Brigham Young University–Idaho and the University of South Africa. He has been the owner and director of Unique Express since 2003 and TEC Group since 2004.
Dwayne Johan van Heerden was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 16, 1982. He married Hayley Dean Kingsley in 2005. They are the parents of three children. Elder and Sister van Heerden reside in East London, South Africa.