Johannes Marthinus (Jan, Jannie) de Wet (10 November 1927 – 13 February 2011[1]) was a Namibian politician and farmer.
De Wet entered politics as a member of the South African Parliament from 1964 to 1970.
He then became the Commissioner General of Native Peoples of South West Africa[2] from 1970 to 1978, as a part of the Apartheid government.
[citation needed] De Wet was a member of the Transitional Government of National Unity from 1985 until independence in 1989.
A White Namibian, de Wet was a farmer in Leonardville in Namibia's eastern Omaheke Region.