Selma Browde, doctor, politician and health activist, passed away at her home in Johannesburg on 26 December 2023. Max Price pays tribute to her compassion, passion and advocacy on behalf of disadvantaged communities in South Africa spanned more than six decades.
Bruce Haigh worked variously as a jackeroo, an oil rig worker, an army conscript in Vietnam, a diplomat, a champion of refugees, and a columnist and broadcaster decrying what he considered excessive American influence on Australia’s security and defence policies.
Probably best known in South Africa for his role – as depicted in ‘Cry Freedom’ –in helping a banned Donald Woods flee apartheid South Africa, Haigh believed if people were suffering, he was obliged to use the diplomat immunity his job afforded him ‘constructively and creatively’.