Hans Beukes
Hans Beukes is a Namibian writer and former activist. Beukes left South Africa where he was a student at UCT in 1959 to appear at the UN as a petitioner on the South West Africa issue. To leave Beukes had to be smuggled out of South Africa in a Volkswagen Beetle. Beukes later earned a scholarship to study in Norway, where he still lived as of 2010. He only returned to Namibia briefly prior to independence in 1989.[1] Beukes is the Scandinavian correspondent for the Cape Town-based Die Burger newspaper.[2] He published his memoirs Long Road to Liberation. An Exiled Namibian Activist's Perspective in 2014.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ UN petitioners retrace long road to freedom The Namibian, 24 September 2010
- ^ Unam – A Tribal College? The Namibian 19 September 2008
- ^ du Pisani, André (9 October 2018). "Hans Beukes' 'Long Road to Liberation'". The Namibian. p. 8.
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