Klaus Dierks succumbs to cancer

By: CHRISTOF MALETSKY

NAMIBIA's first Deputy Minister of Works, Transport and Communication, Dr Klaus Dierks, died yesterday morning after a long battle with cancer.

Dierks, an engineer by profession, served as a member of the first

Parliament, and was re-elected to the second Parliament in 1994 to

serve until March 21 2000.

He was an elected member of the Swapo Central Committee until

May 1997.

 

Since his retirement, he has served as Chairman of the Namibian

Electricity Control Board (ECB) and chairman of the Board of

Directors of TransNamib Holdings.

 

In October 2002 Dierks was also elected as Chairman of the

Research Committee for the History of the Anti-colonial Resistance

and Liberation Struggle (AACRLS) and in June 2003 Cabinet appointed

him as Director of the Namibia Road Fund Administration.

 

He joined Swapo in 1982 and was forced by the colonial interim

government of 1985-1989 to resign from the Department of

Transport.

 

Dierks is survived by his wife Karen - to whom he was married

for 43 years - four children and six grandchildren.

 

He was an elected member of the Swapo Central Committee until May

1997.Since his retirement, he has served as Chairman of the

Namibian Electricity Control Board (ECB) and chairman of the Board

of Directors of TransNamib Holdings.In October 2002 Dierks was also

elected as Chairman of the Research Committee for the History of

the Anti-colonial Resistance and Liberation Struggle (AACRLS) and

in June 2003 Cabinet appointed him as Director of the Namibia Road

Fund Administration.He joined Swapo in 1982 and was forced by the

colonial interim government of 1985-1989 to resign from the

Department of Transport.Dierks is survived by his wife Karen - to

whom he was married for 43 years - four children and six

grandchildren.

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