Jacobus Johannes "Cobus" Dowry (7 December 1946 – 5 May 2014) was a South African politician who served in the Western Cape Executive Council from 2002 to 2009.
[6] Newly elected Premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk appointed him to succeed Doman in the Western Cape Executive Council as Provincial Minister for Local Government.
[7] In August of the following year, he announced that he would cross the floor to the ANC during September's floor-crossing window.
[9] He left the legislature after the next general election in 2009 and subsequently farmed olives on a smallholding in Tulbagh.
[4] He also served as the inaugural chairperson of the South African Agricultural Association and was a director of the Agri Mega Group until November 2012.