John Walter Edington Wiley (7 February 1927 – 29 March 1987) was a South African first-class cricketer and politician who served as the only white English-speaker in P. W. Botha's majority Afrikaans cabinet.
He was educated at the Diocesan College, before enrolling at the University of Cape Town to study law.
[3] After graduating from Cape Town, Wiley went to England to study for his master's degree at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford.
[7] With his Simonstown seat under threat in the 1987 South African general election, Wiley committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in the bedroom of his home on 29 March 1987.
The 2018 book The Lost Boys of Bird Island, links his death to that of Dave Allen, another alleged member of the ring.