Jacobus Frederick van Wyk

Van Wyk died from COVID-19 related complications on 31 July 2021, in Steinkopf during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa. He died shortly after his older sister also died from COVID-19 related complications.

In May 2013, Van Wyk resigned as speaker and member of the provincial legislature (MPL) to take up the position of mayor of the Nama Khoi Local Municipality. He left office before the 3 August 2016 municipal elections.

Van Wyk was elected as a member of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature in the 2004 provincial election. He was first appointed the Member of the Executive Council for Safety and Liaison, before being appointed MEC for Housing and Local Government. Van Wyk later became MEC for Health. Following the May 2009 provincial election, he was appointed chief whip of the ANC caucus in the provincial legislature and became chief whip of the majority party. He later became speaker of the provincial legislature in September 2009.

Van Wyk was active in the South African Council of Sports and a land activist in the Namaqua district. He worked as a field worker for the Surplus People Project from 1994 to 1997. In 1997, Van Wyk was elected as a Member of Parliament to the National Assembly as a member of the African National Congress. He was elected to a full term in parliament in 1999. He served as chairperson of the National Assembly's Portfolio Committee on Water Affairs and Forestry during his time as an MP.

Jacobus Frederick van Wyk (28 July 1952 – 31 July 2021), also sometimes referred to as Boeboe van Wyk, was a South African politician who was a member of the National Assembly from 1997 to 2004, member of the Executive Council in the Northern Cape government from 2004 to 2009, member of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature from 2004 to 2013, speaker of the provincial legislature from 2009 to 2013, and mayor of the Nama Khoi Local Municipality from 2013 to 2016. Van Wyk was a member of the African National Congress.