Jesse Ventura

Hans Beukes is a Namibian writer and former activist. Beukes left South Africa where he was a student at UCT in 1959 to appear at the UN as a petitioner on the South West Africa issue. To leave Beukes had to be smuggled out of South Africa in a Volkswagen Beetle. Beukes later earned a scholarship to study in Norway, where he still lived as of 2010. He only returned to Namibia briefly prior to independence in 1989.^[1] Beukes is the Scandinavian correspondent for the Cape Town-based Die Burger newspaper.^[2] He published his memoirs Long Road to Liberation. An Exiled Namibian Activist's Perspective in 2014.^[3]