Sources: Wits University archives; Robyn Sassen, New Frame. He was married to Hilda (Kithinji) for 23 years and they had two sons, Moagi and Neo. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). Potoki Isaac Nkwe (BEd 1982, MEd 1984) was born in Krugersdorp, the son of Regina Sepotokele and Alfred Lebajoa. As Deputy Vice-Chancellor in the late 1980s, he provided leadership at a time of political protests and harassment, a state of emergency and clashes between anti-apartheid activist students and police. Former editor of the Mail & Guardian Nic Dawes said he was perhaps the most brilliant critic of his generation, an investigative journalist of penetrating acumen, and a spook. He obtained a PhD from Wits in 2010 on the role of spirituality in psychiatric practice and was actively involved in projects with this theme. William Dawson Clough (BSc Eng Mining) died on 12 January 2012, aged 75. He really in a way saved South African Yiddish writing, said Zilla Goodman, professor of Hebrew language and literature at the University of Colorado. Dr Proctor published his first paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research in 1971. The Brummers moved to Cape Town in 1966, and in 1972 Thomas became Director of the Middle East Christian Outreach, a mission which had been started in Syria in the 1860s. Boden lobbied for greater co-operation between Sandton medical personnel and emergency medical services, and pioneered the training of paramedics. His intolerance of foolishness, and especially its perpetrators, was well known. During his address to faculty of engineering graduates he said: I learnt way back that winners play the cards they are dealt. Ultimately a doyen of branding and sponsorship, Lane began his marketing and sports sponsorship career at Teljoy Television, and later at SuperSport. He extended his activities well eyond the university, engaging in worker education and the movement to create a new generation of black trade unions. He was a regular examiner in surgery at the annual final examinations. Keith was born on June 7, 1942 in Crestline, OH to the late Lowell and Maxine (Coakley) Miller. After five years at Groote Schuur, Dr. Chesler became Chief of Cardiology and Professor Medicine at the University of Natal. Under the mentorship of Roddy Ward, the Natal Parks Boards ecologist, they all became good field naturalists and studied further to gain their PhDs. She tirelessly provided editorial assistance during her husbands 50-odd years as editor of theSouth African Law Journal. Professor Wranz studied at three South African universities, obtaining his MMed (O&G) at the University of Pretoria in 1976, and his MMed (Anat Path) at Stellenbosch University in 1985. Tony Beart who was the general manager of the Country Club for 13 years recalls that Prins was the resident consultant in all things heritage at the Country Club, we did not move without his input. Professor van Reenen held office in the Dental Association, The Health Professions Council, the South African Medical Research Council and served on the Council of the Medical and Dental University of South Africa. In 1987 he joined the University of the Western Cape as senior professor and continued teaching Afrikaans poetry until his retirement. After working at the Johannesburg General Hospital, the Fever Hospital and the Transv l Memorial Hospital for Children, Braudo went to Scotland in 1953 to pursue postgraduate studies. He was elected a Life Member of the Association in 1989. In 2014 he was awarded a Special Lifetime Achievement Award by the. Hoping to find each other and a way out, many reached for isms. He received an MD from Wits in 1968 for a thesis on late systolic murmurs and non-ejection systolic clicks, and in 1971 he was elected FRCP. Over and above Professor Bothwells work as a research scientist he was an able administrator and a brilliant clinician. Lindberg was the founder and CEO of the Naledi Theatre Awards one of most prestigious awards events in South Africa. He is survived by his wife Phyllis, and children Deborah, Jacques, Gideon, and Adam. In 2014 he joined a new station Hot 91.9 FM in Johannesburg, and in 2015 won the MTN Radio Award for Best Weekend Radio Show. This work was recognized by honoring him with the A.M. Gaudin Award, the Society of Mining Engineering's most prestigious research award in the field of mineral processing. He was devoted to his family and leaves his wife and three children. Wits benefitted enormously from the philanthropic work and support of the foundation. He had Parkinsons disease but had fallen and suffered a fatal brain haemorrhage just prior to his and his wifesaliyah(pilgrimage to Israel his burial place). It was during the rise of apartheid, and as the country moved further towards segregation, his stance moved further left. He served his accountancy articles with Tuffias Shapiro and business ran deeply in his veins, which saw him collaborating with many in the South Africas business community. Any subject was food for the mind. She had an extraordinary ability to remain positive amidst the most adverse of lifes circumstances. He was awarded a bursary to study mining engineering at Wits. A champion of the down-trodden and a superb teacher and clinician, Wagstaff made an eminent contribution to paediatrics and child health in South Africa. Recreationally, Soggot enjoyed flying. He finally retired from medicine at the age of 85. He was a family man, but sadly his wife passed away from cancer. This kind of tinge in ones attitudes to things became quite important in my development., Studying physiology at the medical school was the beginning of a new kind of interest what is now called biochemistry. Watson was married three times. He successfully collated and pasted drawings of thousands of birds from twelve copies of a popular bird book to confirm the concept resulting in a bestselling colour-coded book of South African birds. He obtained his BArch degree in 1947 and, in 1989, his MArch (Urban Design) with a thesis on Development of an African City: With reference to the re-urbanisation of Johannesburg and the Development of an Inner Core. Brethren Volunteer Service in Maryland; and received his Bachelor He was actively involved in the St John's Ambulance Brigade. He wrote of his time there in 2018: My time at theFM in the 1970s gave me the chance to chronicle the National Partys attempts to reconcile the irreconcilable economic necessity and political ideology. He is survived by his mother and siblings.

Devastatingly charming. The couple moved to the United States, where Hare was required to begin his legal career anew. His dissertation earned him a doctorate from the University of South Africa. John was a highly esteemed dermatologist who was appointed principal specialist in Dermatology at the University of Pretoria. In 1993, he chaired the board of governors of Southern Africas first Jewish television channel. He drew maps of the route to give the best view of the Witwatersrand Ridges. One standout book was The Young Chemist by Sherwood Taylor, which got Brenner started with chemistry experiments and particularly an interest in pigments found in plants. Her home was repeatedly invaded and searched, and she was arrested, assaulted and imprisoned several times. David sat on school management committees as well as being elected president of the Governing Body of the Parkview-Greenside Synagogue in Johannesburg. He returned to Wits where he met his future wife, the late Thelma Mullins (BA 1954, BA Hons 1957), a former geography lecturer and renowned humanitarian, whom he married in 1958. By the time he retired as CEO in 2014, the institute was one of the most influential sources of liberal ideas in the South African public domain. He is survived by his wife of 31 years, Jenny, and their sons Jesse and Jaron. Others will no doubt talk about his devotion, both emotional and financial, to Wits Medical School.. We would like to leave the last word to Prof Keith Manchester from his article on Arthur Harden (Tibbs Feb 2000). He practised as a general practitioner for almost 45 years and retired in 2011. Vosdick Lindo Webb (BSc, 1941), former lecturer in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering from 1945 to 1978 and assistant in the laboratories until 1992, passed away on 23 June 2008, aged 95. I was not a fan of apartheid and eventually, I decided to take advantage of the system and do med school, which I did in Johannesburg and it was very good. His other accomplishments include scoring two holes-in-one in golf and qualifying as a bowls umpire in 1990. He was the first deaf person in South Africa to matriculate and the first deaf person to obtain a university degree without an interpreter. He was awarded the CBE in 1999 and became a Labour peer as Baron Joffe of Liddington in 2000. Dr Proctor was an extremely nice man. Mohamed joined Wits from the University of Roma in Lesotho. He joined the Wits School of Mechanical Engineering in 1958. Block also served in prominent roles as a company director he was on the board of Corporate Social Responsibily for a decade government adviser and with the Sydney Opera House Trust, National Gallery, Darling Harbour Authority and Australian Film Commission. She was meticulous when it came to surgical procedures and especially fond of paediatric surgery. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. Grant is survived by six children, 18 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. In 1966, she began leading garden tours around the world; by the time she stopped, in 2008, she had led 100 tours through 46 countries.

She wrote Sophiatown Speaks, which accompanied the Junction Avenue Theatre Production of Sophiatown in the 1980s and, more recently, a book on the artist Deborah Bell.

He opened a business in Briardene, serving customers working at Coronation Brick. He was a gentleman, a sportsman and a scholar. He lectured around the world, showing people how interesting frogs are and why they are worth saving. In 2005 he authored a classified internal memo called the Browse-Mole report, which investigated possible sources of Jacob Zumas legal and political campaigns. He was associated with Wits for more than 40 years and held four degrees from the University: A BSc (1972), MBBCh (1976), BSc Hons (Histology & Embryology) (1978) - completed through a Victor Kark Scholarship - and an MSc (Bioethics & Health Law) (2008). Other popular books includedHow We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells(Faber & Faber, 2009), The Triumph of the Embryo (Courier Corporation, 1991). She continued to write in her 80s, producing monographs on Walter Battiss, Maggie Laubser, Irma Stern and Hendrik Pierneef. He matriculated from Greenside High School in 2000. World renowned systems ecologist,Professor Robert Scholes(BSc 1978, BSc Hons 1979, PhD 1988), who was Distinguished Professor of Systems Ecology and Director of the Global Change and Sustainability Research Institute at Wits, died in Namibia while hiking with friends on 28 April 2021. In his early days he was known for his furious driving around London of a Messerschmitt Kabinenroller (fortuitously also known as a Karo), a car with three wheels, two seats in tandem, a motorcycle engine and not much else.

He trained in infectious diseases at Wits and the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. Throughout his youth, he had done jobs for extra money to afford his basic education and, later, to pursue his studies. The US president at the time, Ronald Reagan, came under fire for ignoring the emerging AIDS crisis and when he finally addressed the epidemic in 1987 nearly 23,000 people had died of the disease. {{start_at_rate}} {{format_dollars}} {{start_price}} {{format_cents}} {{term}}, {{promotional_format_dollars}}{{promotional_price}}{{promotional_format_cents}} {{term}}, These States Face the Most Package Thieves, Drug Costs Causing Millions To Not Take Prescribed Medication, Mythbusting your dog's desire to eat grass, Four jumping exercises to add to your workout.

Partridge married socialite editor and publisher Susie Jordan just three months ago. Givons support for the democratic movement in the 1980s included such activities as organising a 1km Peace Ribbon for the Black Sash made by artists around the country, the exhibition and sale of 100 works by 100 artists in the aid of the Detainees Parents Support Committee at the Market Theatre Gallery and a human rights exhibition in Durban. Born in South Africa, Watt always had an aptitude for maths and science. Architect, artist, philosopher and professor, Amncio Pancho dAlpoim Miranda Guedes (BArch 1949, honorary DArch 2003) died peacefully near Graaff Reinet on 7 November 2015, aged 90. The reward in ones own soul is far greater. He is survived by Hilary, their children Richard, Tony, Marc and Sue, six grandchildren, his brother Ronnie and sister Pam. On the left is. He relied upon her strength and support in a myriad of ways. Yet she was a joyous individual with a great passion for life a remarkable friend who left an indelible mark on those around her. Pre-eminent voice on diabetes in South Africa and founder of the Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology (CDE), At his memorial service, award-winning fellow endocrinologist, (BArch 1966, PGDipTP 1973, MUD 1980, PhD 1983) died in Johannesburg on 3 October 2021 after a short illness. This was a difficult design challenge as it meant linking the existing John Moffat building via a first floor corridor to the new building. To celebrate his life a scripture from John 12 .24-26 and a poem titled The Successful Life (by Ralph Waldo Emerson) was read as well as various personal experiences relating to Mike Larkin was shared and enjoyed by those present. Victor was the first member of his extended family to earn a university degree. Elder was born in South Africa on 4 May 1967 and studied geography and environmental studies, English and education at Wits. Her advice was concise, practical and always followed up with an e-mail to explain exactly what needed to be done to fight a heritage case. This work, along with that carried out in New Mexico at about the same time, is regarded as the most thorough conducted to date. Sources: Benoni City Times 22 August 2017; Harry Nestadt; Sandy Heymann. A Yiddish scholar and translator, Sherman was passionate about Yiddish literature, its preservation and promotion. In 1990 Kris was elected Emeritus Consultant to the Royal Perth Hospital. Katzen also held an Honours degree in English (cum laude) and a PhD from the University of Natal. She is the reason that South Africa has a comprehensive death certificate, listing several causes of death. This was typical of his wide ranging interests. He valued friends and colleagues and enjoyed close contact with students as head of the Private Students' Organisation at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University. He defended a Namibian charged with complicity in the murder of the leader responsible for the floggings, and Soggots cross-examination revealed violent police interrogation practices in the waarheidskamer (truth room). It is now one of the largest centres of its kind in the world, employing about 100 investigators and staff members in the study of HIV across different disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, public health, anthropology, sociology and social work. In 1990 Dr Grossman left the formal agricultural sector and began a highly successful consulting career. He is survived by his second wife Jackie, children Kevin (BA 1986), Martin and Beverly. But it was Johnny, as creative as he was intellectually independent, who invented the Clegg lamp. She died peacefully at 93 years. Source: Carl Anhauesser, Geobulletin of the Geological Society of South Africa. In retirement Tony enjoyed travel, fly-fishing and wild flowers. Helen is survived by her husband, David, her daughter Paige and son Braydon. He had held senior leadership roles in the African National Congress's Greater Johannesburg Region. It is internationally recognised as one of the leading competition practices on the African continent. He spent his first year schooling at Erica Primary, then attended Miss Duncan's Primary School, and then went on to Grey High. He was a research associate of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (Germany) and he authored or co-authored more than 300 publications and 15 books. Professor David Tanne passed away on Sunday the 26th June 2005 at Hutt Hospital, New Zealand. Star footballer turned university lecturer Louis Jeevanantham (BEd 1983, MEd 1986), affectionately known as Lightning Lou, died at the age of 71 on 28 June 2021. He took early retirement from C&CI in 1996. Influential and beloved epidemiologist Emeritus Professor Zena Stein (MBBCh 1950, DSc honoris causa 1993) died on 7 November 2021 at her home in Coatesville in the United States at the age of 99. He earned his bachelors and masters degrees through a scholarship at Kings College at the University of London. He testified at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and his evidence along with that of others resulted in medical academia issuing a formal apology, and the erection of a statue at the Wits Medical School to commemorate the struggle of oppressed healthcare workers during apartheid. Callie was known to millions of South Africa as Lee Haines in the local soap opera, Isidingo. In 1960, Clive moved into a rented flat at 49 West Cromwell Road, London. Ramasar then opened his own practice in Umzinto and served the indigent population on the sugar estates there and in the broader south coast until 1961. Another of his legacies was a childrens charity in Russia, where he trained local doctors in paediatrics. He was South Africas delegate to FIDE Congress, and campaigned tirelessly, at the highest levels and globally, for South Africa to be readmitted to international chess. In the early 1960s, Groenewald was Chief Inspector of Factories, during which he drafted regulations for earth leakage protection. During his time at Wits he served on undergraduate committees of the Faculty of Health Sciences and was a member of the Physics Faculty Board. In 2011, Colin and his wife left Cape Town, moving to their Leisure Isle house in Knysna, fulfilling a long-held ambition. He resigned from Syfrets to pursue a full-time political career and held the seat till 1987. The second was his apt turn of phrase. Thereafter he helped with club administration for many years, serving as a committee member, arranging 100 Club gatherings and building up the old boy database. Thousands of students were taught, mentored and guided by Viedge and were inspired by his passion for education. He was born in Johannesburg on 27 November 1942 and matriculated from St Johns College. He was one of the main drivers of the short-lived unity process in the mid-1970s and, as honorary president, was supportive of Dr Bacher becoming Transvaal crickets first full-time chief executive in 1981. He decided to teach physics at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania for two years, believing at this time that the primary role of scientists in developing countries should be education from primary school to university, in order to build up a scientific base. He graduated from Wits at the end of 1949, facing the prospect of a lean job market. He is survived by his wife and three children. She was the dance critic for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and wrote frequently about dance, music and opera. Hughes set the standard for sophisticated wildlife films. During his studies Professor Peeters was active in adventurous outdoor activities as a member of the Wits Mountain Club, Wilderness Leadership School, and he was one of the climbers who went out every September to ring Cape Vulture chicks in the Magaliesberg and other mountainous localities for the Vulture Study Group led by Peter Mundy and John Ledger (BSc 1965, BSc Hons 1966, PhD 1976). Professor Lieberman had many interests outside of academia, including a long-standing interest in African art and travel in the African continent, including an overland trip to climb Mount Kenya to raise money for charity. He is someone who got me interested in the whole idea of mathematical theories and ultimately in computers. Barons Court was a South African enclave even then, for those that didnt like the way that country was going, so when he helped carry up the bags of a young lady from Port Elizabeth moving into one of the other flats that soon led to them going out together, though his taste in Swedish cinema is something she still shudders at. My last engagement with he was her contribution to the Ampersand Foundation Award 21st Anniversary exhibition at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery that I curated in September 2019. He and his team (which included his Wits classmate Michael Lewis) came up with solutions, developing many new techniques in the process. In 2014 she wrote for the Wits Review: My student years at Wits 1946 to 1950 spanned a uniquely self-contained chapter in the Universitys history. With no formal legal training, she became an authority on the pass laws. The high prevalence of iron deficiency in some populations, particularly India, suggested that nutrition, rather than blood loss, was the basic cause. The couple moved to Plettenberg Bay in 1975 and established an architectural firm. On 7 May 2020, Dr Plit passed away in the comfort of his home at the age of 83. Javett went on to collaborate with the University of Pretoria to form the Javett Art Centre in 2019. Cedric and his brothers were all fairly retiring, but he was probably the most gregarious on social occasions. Born 1 January 1928 in Johannesburg, Freinkel ran his late fathers leather business after matriculating from Athlone High. It says a great deal about his relationships that many of his friendships went back over 60 years. In 2003, she completed her PhD at the University of London and was promoted to Associate Professor at Wits in 2005. My father was the Vice President of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the Vice President of the United Democratic Front Transvaal. The one subject he wasnt that interested in was medicine. In 1966 he married a music teacher, Patricia, who developed Alzheimers at the age of 49 and died at the age of 64. Died June 19, 2019, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America. Her most recent monograph titled Kevin Atkinson Art and Life (Print Matters, 2022) is due to be released later this year. He didnt feel suited to clinical work. He was considered one of the founding fathers of competition law in South Africa and the founding partner of Bowmans Competition Practice in 1999, the year the Competition Act was enacted, and headed it for many years before his appointment as chair in 2014. A Professor of Chemistry at Wits for 30 years, Thomas Arthur Pinfold died of pneumonia on 23 August 2013, aged 82. Even as he fought alongside leading figures in the national liberation movement, he never lost sight of mobilising and organising (forces) in his local community. Arridge was exposed to the work done at the Bernard Price Institute and the early days of radar. For his first assignment at EGRU, Professor Gevers sent him to map the lithium-bearing pegmatites of the Karibib District of what was then South West Africa. Her mode of work was not that of painstaking organisation-building; she was more capable as a public speaker and as someone who could connect with people in the harsh conditions of life in apartheids townships. He was a member of the North West Parks Board. Although he was an academic at heart Phoebus responded to his ancestry by going into private practice at the request of the Greek community in Johannesburg. After 11 years at Fort Hare, he accepted a post at Mintek (then National Institute of Metallurgy) in Johannesburg as Chief Scientist in the Mineral and Process Division in order that he might return to chemical research. Volans, who currently divides his time between Ireland and Spain, spoke about Junes influence on his early career in Wits Review (Oct 2014): She encouraged me to write my thesis on modernist Karlheinz Stockhausen, who, in 1970, in terms of audience attendance figures was the worlds most successful composer of all time, as well as a leader of the avant-garde. He is survived by his wife Professor Margaret Steele (BAcc 1980), former head of the School of Accountancy (1987-1995), and their three children, who are all Wits graduates.

In 1977 he became a full professor. His interest was mainly in the relationship between literature and society as well as literature and politics. Dr Chipkin remembered 1955 as the year of the Congress of the People in Kliptown. He was detained several times during the states of emergency in the late 1980s and banning orders restricted him to the magisterial district of Johannesburg. He worked in Casualty at the Johannesburg Childrens Hospital and it was here that he met his wife, Jeanette, a radiographer. After graduating, the couple studied further in England. She died as she had lived, without ceremony or fuss. See WITSReview October 2014. It is often said that you never forget a brilliant and inspirational teacher. What struck Philip about the Wits Faculty, by comparison with British universities, was the lack of dialogue between disciplines, and the promotion of interdisciplinary exchanges was certainly a major pioneering enterprise of his. He also worked for the South African National Tuberculosis Association until a few years before his death.

Paul Vickers, at the time legal counsel to Mirror Newspapers and TV-am, noted the seminal role Williamson played in the ending of the 1987 TV-am strike which led to major changes in the power balance between the television industry and the unions. In 1978, he helped establish (and directed until 1993) the Legal Resources Centre, a non-profit organisation pursuing justice and human rights in South Africa through legal means. She was 87. She tended to laugh at the over-serious people.. From 1970 to 1978 he was appointed as a Principal Paediatrician in the Department of Paediatrics at the TMH and then at the Johannesburg Hospital from 1978 until 1992. At Wits he met Noreen McHardy (BA 1946), who was then working in the library. In 1977, he emigrated to Australia where he was a consultant histopathologist at Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital until his retirement. She had a keen interest in South African heritage, museums, public collections, and art history. For several years he organised and ran National Science Week for Wits. She received her MBBCh from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1952, and a diploma in Public Health in 1958. Thankfully, he returned home safely and shortly after in 1990, was approached by his very good friend Tony Brink to lecture at the then Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), which later changed to the University of Johannesburg (UJ). Macsteel co-chair, Eric Samson, described Goldstuck as the epitome of loyalty, trustworthiness, honour and integrity?.