critical of liberalism, a critic of the Soviet Union and softening stance of the west toward it in the 1980s, in addition to supporting the white-minority government of Ian Smith in Rhodesia. 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 exact motive behind his suicide has remained a matter of speculation, ranging from financial, to a media campaign questioning his probity and speculating about his sexuality, to Wiley being a member of an elite pedophile ring headed by Magnus Malan. The 2018 book The Lost Boys of Bird Island, links his death to that of Dave Allen, another alleged member of the ring. Two weeks after the books publication, the books co-author Mark Minnie was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in an apparent suicide. References External links 1927 births 1987 suicides People from Cape Town South African people of English descent Alumni of Diocesan College, Cape Town University of Cape Town alumni South African cricketers South African Universities cricketers Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford Oxford University cricketers 20th-century South African lawyers Members of the House of Assembly (South Africa) United Party (South Africa) politicians South African Party (Union of South Africa) politicians National Party (South Africa) politicians Suicides by firearm in South Africa