Derek Andre Hanekom

On 19 May at a symposium for the late Walter Sisulu Derek Hanekom the Deputy Minister for Science and Technology and NEC member called on Ramaphosa to run arguing that the party needed leaders of his ‘calibre’...

Moreover there is a clash of ideologies between white leftists such as former Lands and Agriculture Minister Derek Hanekom and black 'realists' such as Didiza who replaced him when Mbeki was elected President last June; last year too Helena Dolny widow of Communist leader Joe Slovo was forced out of her job as General Manager of the Land Bank while Geoff Budlender lost his post as Director General of Lands...

Some of the old cabinet's brightest stars including Mac Maharaj at Transport Pallo Jordan at Environment and Derek Hanekom at Agriculture either jumped or were pushed...

US Commerce Secretary William Daley and SA Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin will chair the Trade and Investment Committee; Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman will share with his SA counterpart Derek Hanekom; Energy Secretary Bill Richardson with Penuell Maduna...

Trades unionists and most of the ANC (although Lands Minister Derek Hanekom is more cautious) reject any clause asserting property rights as upholding the ill-gotten gains of post-1948 apartheid and the 1913 Land Act while giving legitimacy to forced resettlement...

Land Minister Derek Hanekom: latter-day ANC convert able to strike balanced position on land reform (works closely with mainstream white Agriculture Minister Van Niekerk); has retained confidence of farmers and tenants in early stages of land reform but tougher decisions are due in coming months...