He taught at Pretoria Boys High after graduating and was a respected and popular educator. Henderson is survived by her husband, two daughters and grandchildren. More top storiesĭescribed by a friend and colleague as a formidable force in the social development field who fearlessly championed the rights of the poor and never took no for an answer, Henderson was a great humanitarian and the recipient of the Order of the Baobab bronze from the South African government, the Solus Medal for Meritorious Service to the Community and the South African Teachers Association Centennial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education. She served on the council of the Grahamstown Foundation for more than two decades. He is survived by two daughters and three grandsons. After retiring from Rhodes, he served as a Democratic Alliance city councillor.ĭuring retirement he worked to keep the doors of the National Settlers Monument open when financial insolvency threatened its existence. Henderson objected to apartheid early on and, in, defied the Nationalist government by making Rhodes the first university in South Africa to integrate races in student residences. He returned to Wits where he met his future wife, the late Thelma Mullins BA, BA Hons, a former geography lecturer and renowned humanitarian, whom he married in At Wits Henderson developed and directed South Africa's first computer centre and was appointed the country's first Professor of Computer Science in Henderson served his alma mater for 21 years, from to His tenure at Rhodes focused on attracting stronger academics, improving administration and reforming the university's finances, the latter of which he did with the help of Wits colleague Jerry Steele BCom, MCom Above all, Henderson's intention was to raise the stature of Rhodes in the tradition of the great universities of the world. He joined IBM, then the world's largest computer company, and was part of the architectural team that designed the prototype of the IBM family of computers. He then started lecturing mathematics at Wits until his interest in computers led him to Harvard University, where he obtained his doctorate in applied mathematics making him one of only 12 doctorates in the field of computer science at the time. In Henderson moved into the corporate world, joining the Anglo American Corporation as private secretary to Harry Oppenheimer. He also held an Honours degree from Cambridge in the logic section of the moral sciences tripos. He received a service excellence award in Derek Scott Henderson died in Grahamstown on 8 August, aged Born in Durban, Henderson was home-schooled before matriculating from St John's College in Houghton, at which he was head boy. Veliotes also held diplomas in hospital management and conflict resolution. He completed military service and then trained as an anaesthetics registrar after graduating, earning an anaesthetics diploma in A highly skilled cardio-thoracic and neuro-surgical anaesthetist, Veliotes participated in in anaesthetising the tallest living man, Gabriel E Monjane, for a hip replacement, and anaesthetising to separate the Matebela Siamese twins - the successful separation of which made world headlines. After her release, Katzen emigrated to England where she worked at the University of Leicester until her retirement in She is survived by her two children. She lectured history at the University of Cape Town in the early sixties before being detained for anti-apartheid activities.
ĭuring this time she was a research fellow at the Institute of Colonial Studies at Oxford.
Born 31 July, Katzen obtained first-class passes in English and history for her undergraduate and Honours degrees and won the South African Association of University Women's Prize in She lectured in history before winning a scholarship to the London School of Economics in the fifties for her Masters degree in history. She could turn the ordinary into the extraordinary with the flick of her pen, her smile, her life. She was generous, hospitable, had the flair of a magician, longed for a new world, and had a love of adventure and difficult intellectual challenges. To many of those who knew her, Stein was a true Renaissance woman. She was joint leader of the Wits Multi-literacies Research Project and an organiser of the highly successful 14th International Conference of Learning, held at the Wits School of Education in June A brilliant teacher, Stein was admired and loved by students and colleagues alike.