Gert Johannes Gerwel (Jakes) Gerwel, academic and anti-apartheid activist: born Somerset East, South Africa 18 January 1946; Director-General, Office of the President of South Africa 1994-99; Secretary of the Cabinet, Government of National Unity 1994-97; Chancellor, Rhodes University 1999-2012; married Phoebe Abrahams (one son, one daughter); died Cape Town 28 November 2012.
It was a member of Director General's office at ESA.
However he said the director general's office was "quite cool because it had sofas in, it was quite posh.
"It really is a marvelous drug," said Dr. David Nabarro, executive director in the director general's office at W.H.O.
Dr Margaret Harris in the director general's office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said they were at "a bump in the road".
But Brazil has a powerful presence at the WTO and Latin America has never been represented in the director general's office.
One morning, while I was waiting outside the director general's office, among the massed ranks of desks in New Broadcasting House, I bumped into Alan Yentob, the BBC's creative director.
Once again, the governors prevailed, issuing a lengthy statement explaining they had to pull the programme because of the failure of management in Northern Ireland to refer the programme up to the director general's office as required by guidelines.
Despite the jokes – when he and Michael Bentine created a special effect apparently blasting the BBC into space, Moore got a formal warning from the director general's office ("Television Centre is not to be used for the purposes of entertainment") – Lord Rees praised the range and seriousness of his mind.
In response, a management worker said that the facility stopped providing incentives to workers because a directive from the director general's office in 2008 ordered all facilities to stop issuing incentives.
David Howman, the longtime director general, whose corner office overlooks the St .Lawrence River, wavered.
