Jeremy Cronin | Deputy Minister
Department of Transport South Africa

Deputy Minister of Transport Mr (J P ) Jeremy Patrick Cronin, MP • Member of Parliament since 1999 • Deputy General-Secretary of the South African Communist Party since 1995 • ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) Member since 1991 • Chairperson - Portfolio Committee on Transport (National Assembly), Parliament of the Republic of South Africa (1999 – 2009) • Editor: African Communist Magazine • He was a negotiator in Codesa Multiparty Negotiations from 1991 - 1993 • Deputy Minister of Transport since 11 May 2009 • Was politically imprisoned for seven years (1976 - 1983) at Pretoria Maximum Security prison • He is a published poet and a writer and his first collection of poems titled Inside was published in 1983, while he was still in prison • Other collections include Even the Dead (1997) and Inside and Out (1999)