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Jakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage
Professor Gert Johannes "Jakes" Gerwel, who died of complications following heart surgery leaves a legacy of quiet leadership and academic excellence.
Professor Gert Johannes "Jakes" Gerwel, who died of complications following heart surgery on Wednesday, was a quiet South African, but one who thought and acted with nobility and courage.
This was clear in his visionary, successful attempts to transform the University of the Western Cape (UWC) from an apartheid "bush university" into the "intellectual home of the left" during his time as rector there in the 1980s.
It was also clear in his appropriation and subversion of the Afrikaans language against the dominant white racist paradigms in his academic work.
Whether on the barricades during the protests of the 1980s or as director general in the office of South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, Gerwel maintained, with dignity and a clarity of purpos
