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Gert Johannes Gerwel (18 January – 28 November ) known mononymously as Jakes, was a South African academic and anti-apartheid activist. He served as Director-General of the Presidency when Nelson Mandela was in office. Gert Johannes Gerwel, better known as Jakes Gerwel, was born on the farm Malvern, 64 km from Somerset East in the Eastern Cape, on 18 January 1946. Gert Johannes Gerwel (18 January 1946 – 28 November 2012) known mononymously as Jakes, was a South African academic and anti-apartheid activist. He served as Director-General of the Presidency when Nelson Mandela was in office. In 1999 Gerwel was instrumental in brokering the deal under which Lockerbie bombing suspects were extradited to.
Gert Johannes “Jakes” Gerwel was born on 18 January 1946 in the town of Kommadagga in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Province (now. Jakes Gerwel was Chancellor of Rhodes University, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, and Honorary Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pretoria. He was Vice-Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Western Cape from 1987 to 1994.
Jakes was a South African academic and anti-apartheid activist. Gert Johannes “Jakes” Gerwel was born on 18 January 1946 in the town of Kommadagga in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). He is the seventh of ten children of laborers on a sheep farm near Somerst East.
prof jakes gerwel biography4 Gert Johannes Gerwel, better known as Jakes Gerwel, was born on the farm Malvern, 64 km from Somerset East in the Eastern Cape, on 18 January 1946. This farm is situated 27 km from the Kommadagga Railway Station and 6 km from the farm school Bracefield Primary where Gerwel, his six brothers and three sisters started their education.Jakes Gerwel 2008 - Nelson Mandela University Four years later he became senior lecturer, then in 1980, professor and head of department, and eventually in 1982 dean of the Faculty of Arts. In 1979 Jakes Gerwel received his doctorate in Literature and Philosophy (magna cum laude) from the Vrije Universiteit of Brussels. His thesis (published in 1983) was on "Literatuur en apartheid.Statement from former President Thabo Mbeki on the passing of ... Joining UWC as an academic he became a professor in 1980 and Dean of the Arts Faculty in 1982. In 1987 he was appointed Vice-Chancellor. Gerwel was an exceptional, courageous, and pioneering South African intellectual, scholar, leader, activist and citizen with a deep commitment to equity, social justice and democracy. Phoebe gerwel
Jakes Gerwel was Chancellor of Rhodes University, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, and Honorary Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pretoria. He was Vice-Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Western Cape from to Jakes gerwel wife
Author, teacher, leading intellectual, member of the ANC and Director-General in the presidential office of Nelson Mandela. Gert Johannes “Jakes” Gerwel was born on 18 January in the town of Kommadagga in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). Jakes gerwel family
In the City of Cape Town officially renamed Vanguard Drive Jakes Gerwel Drive. As authoritarian literary critic Gerwel distinguished himself as a reader and analyst with a very fine sense of complex literary texts when he expressed himself in book reviews and articles about writers’ works. Jakes gerwel son
From May to June Professor Gerwel served as Director-General in the Office of President Mandela. He also served as secretary of the Cabinet, chancellor of the Chancellery of Orders, and as a member of various government committees.
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Professor Gert Johannes "Jakes" Gerwel, who died of complications following heart surgery on Wednesday, was a quiet South African, but one who thought and acted with nobility and courage.
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Gerwel was an exceptional, courageous, and pioneering South African intellectual, scholar, leader, activist and citizen with a deep commitment to equity, social justice and democracy.