Harold Wolpe
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1926 – 1996
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Who was Harold Wolpe?
Harold Wolpe was a South African lawyer, sociologist, political economist and anti-apartheid activist. He was arrested and put in prison in 1963 but escaped and spent 30 years in exile in the United Kingdom. He was a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex between 1972 and 1991 when he moved back to South Africa with his wife to direct the Education Policy Unit at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town. White rule ended three years later. He died of a sudden heart attack in 1996.
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- Born
- Jan 14, 1926
South Africa - Education
- University of the Witwatersrand
- Died
- Jan 19, 1996
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on July 23, 2013
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