First she stole his heart - now she's stolen him from his right-wing party, and convinced him to join the African National Congress.
"My powers of persuasion are legendary," she says, oozing confidence just weeks after tying the knot with the son of one of the country's funniest right-wing politicians.
She is Carol Johnson, the New National Party's spokesperson, an MP who is widely seen as one of party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk's top lieutenants.
He is Willie Aucamp, former Gauteng leader of the Nasionale Aksie (NA) and offspring of political funny-man and founder of the NA Cassie Aucamp.
Carol and Willie exchanged vows on July 10 in the Dutch Reformed Church in Stellenbosch.
Now, just a month later, Johnson says she has already filled in an application form to join the ruling African National Congress, the party that fought against apartheid.
She will be among the first in the queue to join the ANC after Van Schalkwyk announced this weekend that he would be joining the ruling party and encouraged other members of his party to follow suit.
Johnson is simply waiting for Van Schalkwyk to return from an overseas trip and will follow hot on his heels to submit her application for membership of the ANC.
"The form's filled in and ready to be delivered to my nearest branch," Johnson said on Sunday, adding that she would have to wait for Van Schalkwyk to submit his application first as leader of the NNP.
And her new husband, will he be joining too?
"Yes he is," she says - "He's resigned from the NA.
"My powers of persuasion are legendary," she giggles.
At the time of going to press Willie and Cassie Aucamp, who often had ANC MPs in stitches as an MP before the April election, were in church in Pretoria and could not be reached for comment, but Cassie Aucamp's wife, Ina, said she had absolutely no problem with her son joining the ANC.
"Cassie and I will not stand in Willie's way if he wants to join the ANC - he must support his wife," said Ina Aucamp.
Cassie had left the Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging and formed the NA because he had not succeeded in convincing those on the far right of the need to work together with all South Africans, she said.