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Derek Bostock, a prominent figure in the life of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), has died aged 81.
He was the IRR’s Honorary Legal Adviser from 2005 to 2015, Chairman of the Social and Ethics Committee from its inception in February 2012 to 2015, and a member of the Audit Committee from 2012 to 2015.
IRR CEO Dr John Endres said of Bostock: “Those of us who remember him do so fondly and with gratitude.”
Born in 1943, Derek Stanley Leslie Bostock was schooled at Pridwin School and then at Michaelhouse in KwaZulu-Natal, where he matriculated in 1960 with a distinction in History.
He was elected president of the Students’ Representative Council of the University of Witwatersrand in 1963, and, a year later, was awarded the Transvaal Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford, where he took a degree in Jurisprudence.
He completed his articles of clerkship at Webber Wentzel before embarking on a career as an international mining lawyer, first working for TotalEnergie in France and thereafter for Transocean Sedco Forex Inc in Iran, Algeria and the United Arab Emirates.
He returned to South Africa in 1980 to take up the position of legal advisor – and, later, Commercial Director − at Rand Mines, which had been recently purchased by the then Barlowrand Group.
In 1993, he joined Gencor Limited as the General Counsel, where he was integrally involved in the ground-breaking acquisition by Gencor of the Billiton mining assets of Royal Dutch Shell. He later joined Anglo American Platinum, also as General Counsel. He retired as the General Counsel for Anglo American Platinum in 2002.
His daughter, Veronica, cited Michael Katz, Chairman of ensAfrica, with whom he worked on the Billiton transaction, as saying of her father that he was “a very good lawyer, a decent man of great integrity, refinement and humility”.
Bostock is survived by his wife, Lilian, his daughters Veronica and Caroline and his sons Mark and John.
source:Stalwart Derek Bostock remembered for contribution to SA liberalism – Daily Friend
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