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Dr Greg Olsen
A consulting civil engineer, Stanley D. Kaplan worked primarily in the UK, Southern Africa, Israel and the USA. He was the founding partner of Stanley Kaplan, Bahr & Jacobs Consulting Engineers who pioneered the use of pre-stressed concrete in South Africa. Some of the notable buildings in South Africa he was involved in constructing, have been the Central News company (CNA) building, the Johannesburg Civic Center, Whitbread Brewery, Waterford School and numerous bridges and house buildings.
Professor Whitaker was born Marie-Joséphine Polakiewicz in what was then japanese Poland and is now south-western Ukraine, and used to describe herself as “Polish by delivery, French by culture”. Forced to flee in 1940 from the Russian occupation of jap Poland, she launched into an epic refugee journey together with her mother and sister, ending in Cape Town, the place she read for her bachelor’s and master’s at the University of Cape Town. As a graduate scholar she met her husband, Frank Whitaker, when he was despatched to her to brush up his French after coming back from war service. To his enormous credit, he positioned nice value on the expertise of others and significantly enjoyed surrounding himself with people who in his words “know things that I don't”. David Leslie James, often identified as “Dave” (BSc Mech Eng 1950, BSc Elec Eng 1952) was born in 1927 and he lived his early childhood in mining company towns on the Witwatersrand corresponding to Robertson Deep, Sub Nigel and Vogelstruisbult. While Dr Lipschitz was an distinctive leader in medical analysis and administration, his best passion being educating his sufferers and the common public about healthy getting older.
He would advise his patients the method to deal with themselves and not simply to depend on a pharmacy nostrum. Dr Ian Potgieter (MBBCh 1957) passed away on 2 October 2020, lower than a month after his 86th birthday, after a protracted, illustrious profession and productive life. Chairperson of the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC), Professor Daniel Plaatjies (PhD 2008) handed away “unexpectedly of pure causes” at the age of 57 on 10 October. A few years after Penelope Machanik, his spouse of 52 years handed away, he returned to spend the last 5 years of his life in Johannesburg the place he died on 22 July 2020. Often referred to as the doyenne of South African art and founding father of the Goodman Gallery, Linda Givon passed away on 5 October 2020 on the age of eighty four.
He introduced the idea of “academic articles”, whereby trainee accountants might spend part of their articles at college as tutors and junior lecturers. His specialist computer data influenced the education of accountants and the occupation itself. In 1976 the Williamsons moved to Oranjemund, Namibia, where Graham was the dental surgeon and did pioneering work on dental headache. The couple’s research of the area’s natural history resulted within the Sperrgebiet book.
In August 1981, he was elected President of the South African Institute. Outside of drugs, he had a black belt in karate and taught at Joe Robinson’s studio to pay for his undergraduate training. He was an completed cyclist and performed squash at provincial stage.
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Mpahleni was honoured with an honorary diploma by Rhodes University and the University of Cape Town (UCT). The Southern African Music Rights Organisation sent their condolences to the family of the musician. Dr Latozi Madosini Mpahleni, one of the final practising guardians of conventional Xhosa cultural music, has died. Stuart knows the sensation of not ending all too properly, having gotten so shut last year after which his bike packed in on the penultimate stage. “Brilliant, sensible, we are all happy and jealous on the identical time.

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