George Fredrickson and Stanley Trapido, Rest In Peace
Recently elsewhere I wrote about the passing of George Fredrickson, emphasizing the role he played in my own intellectual development. Here is his New York Times obituary.
Another leading South African historian, Stanley Trapido, who left South Africa after the Sharpevile Massacre in 1960 and became a lecturer at Oxford, also died recently. You can find his obituary (written by respected South African historian Charles van Onselen) in The Guardian here.
Hamba kahle, gentlemen.
(Crossposted at dcat.)
June 28th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Isn’t life strange?
I am the late Stan’s cousin. My late dad and him were 1st cousins.
If you look at my blog, the biggest individual blog in South Africa (according to my editors and my mother) it is very much focused on issues close to late Stan’s heart.
Kind regards
July 13th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Michael –
Thanks for reading and sorry to be so tardy in responding. I have been traveling through South Africa with only intermittent internet access! Thanks for mentioning your blog — have you a link to it?
Thanks for reading –
dc