Hans Beukes

Hans Beukes is a Namibian writer and former activist. He left South Africa, where he was a student at University of Cape Town (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 newspaper Die Burger.[2] He published his memoirs, Long Road to Liberation. An Exiled Namibian Activist's Perspective, in 2014.[3]

References

  1. ^ Menges, Werner, "UN petitioners retrace long road to freedom", The Namibian, 24 September 2010.
  2. ^ Beukes, Hans, "Unam – A Tribal College?", The Namibian, 19 September 2008.
  3. ^ du Pisani, André (9 October 2018). "Hans Beukes' 'Long Road to Liberation'". The Namibian. p. 8.


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