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He was Chairman of the Cabinet Makers Group at the time of his death. Griffiths came to Wits as a De Beers engineering scholar but graduated instead with an Honours degree in Linguistics (1968). In 2007 he was awarded an NRF chair in Local Histories, Present Realities, finally retiring in 2012 after 41 years of service. He retired in 1981 and returned to Wits as Chair of Mineral Economics until 1991. Hugh was a singular figure among evolutionary biologists and academics. The thesis was based on a study of a bookentitled "Prayer as the Miraj of the Believer" – a book written in Urdu by Sufi Abid MianUsmani, who lived in Ladysmith, South Africa fifty years ago. If it stands still, chop it down." She volunteered at the Royal Academy and, after moving to Dulwich in south London, at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, studying Italian and Dutch to deepen her understanding of the gallery’s classical collection. A seminal discovery was that, in haemochromatosis, the absorbed radioiron accumulated in the liver rather than in haemoglobin. One of those in the delegation, who came up to speak to him afterwards, was Cyril Ramophosa, a fellow Venda-speaker. Justice Zulman was born 23 September 1938 in Durban. In 1954, Chief Albert Luthuli was critically ill and was brought to the hospital after suffering a heart attack. Over this same period, GE made 600 acquisitions and Alistair participated in more than 150 of these. Vosdick Lindo Webb (BSc, 1941), former lecturer in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering from 1945 to 1978 and assistant in the laboratories until 1992, passed away on 23 June 2008, aged 95. May 1933 - Mar 2021. He returned to Wits to complete his studies and married Betty (also a pilot) – his wife of 75 years. Despite being retired, he was often summoned to Qunu, in the Eastern Cape, to attend to Mandela. Starting a new phase of her life in New York, Pearl quickly made friends with whom she played bridge, exercised regularly, and volunteered at the local Community Center. Avraham died on the 15th April 2007 after a long illness. They leave their son William Kerfoot (BA 1975, BA Hons 1976, LLB 1978). He wrote extensively about the project in Johannesburg Transition and was proud of the designs and how architecture could contribute to better industrial relations. Text forecast. Though gentle, he displayed courage in the face of the terrible health ordeals he faced. A devoted mother and grandmother, she had an outgoing personality characterised by a joie de vivre blended with sound practical wisdom. She developed rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 16, which interrupted her studies for a year. He was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at Wits in 1956, but his interest in information technology gave his career a new direction. The next year he returned to South Africa and lectured in music at UCT, but had to leave after he and the singer Maud Damons had been charged under the Immorality Act. He was a great and longstanding supporter of the WUBC and of University Rowing in general. Khumalo was introduced to music at the age of eight, guided predominantly by her father’s influence, Sibongile studied violin, singing, drama and dance under Emily Motsieloa, a pianist and leader of an all-women’s band and influential musical personality in township circles. She was a founding member of The South African Music Education Trust (SAMET), which administers outreach projects in Alexandra, and her enthusiasm and commitment made her a key member of the SAMET board. Shortly after her arrival she met Laurie Starfield who was completing an Accounting qualification through Wits on an ex-serviceman’s concession after WWII and they married in January 1948. In this capacity he served on the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research's National Programme for Environmental Sciences and chaired its Inland Water Ecosystems Committee, which approved the funding of multidisciplinary research in this field. Bunce was a deep-voiced man overflowing with bonhomie. Victor was a keen competitive sportsman and chess player. In addition to her skills as a player, she contributed stability, continuity, mentorship and guidance to students on the field and in the lecture hall. In 2019 she was given a Lifetime Achiever award by the South African Institute of Architectural Technologists for her work over the years. His dissertation earned him a doctorate from the University of South Africa. Druce first joined Wits in 1986 as a senior administrative secretary in the Department of Physics. Once I learnt the shop keeper was a Port Elizabethan, I asked who his dentist was. His lens is architectural history, but his breadth of scholarship is such that he enables the reader to see the city and its buildings with a fresh understanding about why certain styles were adopted in particular periods and why the city has been rebuilt through successive waves of capitalist expansion. Although he did not hold any official positions in the Church, he always encouraged and supported mom. In 1991, Mokgatle joined Eskom as a senior legal adviser and moved up the ranks to be the first black person and first woman appointed as MD of the utility's transmission group, which she turned from lossmaking to profitable within a year. Another was The Science of Life by HG Wells, Julian Huxley and GP Wells, which Brenner took from the library and didn’t return – he just paid the fine. After the war, Radford worked for Rose-Innes and Jordan in Cape Town, Mackintosh, Cross and Farquason in Pretoria, and for the Springs and Johannesburg Town Clerk's Legal Departments. (Source: http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global[_id]=47524). Jacqueline Whitaker (BA 1969, Hons 1971) died suddenly in London in March 2020, aged 70. He served on the Electricity Council from 1992 to 2000, following his much earlier involvement in the electricity industry as a member of the Commission of Inquiry into Electricity Supply in South Africa in 1982. After graduating Berjak joined the South African Defence Force in 1939 but recalled two years later to take up the post of chief medical superintendent at Crown Mines, a post he held until his retirement in 1969. The pair found their way to Johannesburg, with Bizos’s father taking small jobs while he worked in a café, rather than attending school. His crusade for the conservation of fragile land and water resources took him to the then southern Rhodesia, where he gained much from their worthy programmes, then to Swaziland. In July 2008‚ he received the Sydney and Felicia Kentridge Award for Service to Law in Southern Africa. He practised in Zimbabwe for more than 20 years and at the Boston Children’s Floating Hospital in the USA before establishing the Child Health Unit at the University of Cape Town. She was Chair and Vice-Chair of the South African Society of Physiotherapy from 1981 to 1991 and edited the South African Journal of Physiotherapy for seven years. After graduating in 1945, he joined the South African Railways and Harbours (as it was known then) where his father worked, and served in Port Elizabeth on “boring construction work” as well as on the Cape Town harbour works, which he found more to his liking. Phoebus was a meticulous person and thorough in whatever he did. After graduating from Wits in 1954 he earned a Higher Diploma in Librarianship (with distinction) at the University of Cape Town. Arthur David Bensusan died at the age of 85 while in New Zealand. The paper that emanated from the work done by him and colleague Paul Roberts as members of the committee advising the Cabinet on the reconstruction of Laingsburg after the ravaging flood of 1981, received the South African Institution of Civil Engineers prize for the paper of the year. Her energy and enthusiasm for life were maintained until her late 90s, when she began to show early signs of neuro-cognitive decline, resulting in an inevitable slowing down and disconnection from the activities that she had loved and enjoyed, and she needed help with the activities of daily living.