South African international development academic

Raphael Kaplinsky

Raphael Malcolm Kaplinsky is an Honorary Professor at the Science Policy Research Unit and an Emeritus Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. In 2024 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He was an active and well-known opponent to Apartheid in South Africa during the 1960s, and played a leading role in 1968 in the Mafeje affair. Kaplinsky was not allowed to return to his country of birth until Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, after which he played an active role in policy development at the national and regional levels.

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1946

December 31

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1940s

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406 Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.
535 Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year.
870 Battle of Englefield: The Vikings clash with ealdorman Æthelwulf of Berkshire. The invaders are driven back to Reading (East Anglia); many Danes are killed.
1105 Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV is forced to abdicate in favor of his son, Henry V, in Ingelheim.

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The world in 1946

When Raphael arrived

april 1 The 8.6 Mw  Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.
april 1 The Malayan Union is established. Protests from locals led to the establishment of the Federation of Malaya two years later.
april 17 The last French troops are withdrawn from Syria.
april 18 The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.

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Andreas Vesalius 1514–1564 Belgian anatomist, physician, and author (died 1564) Jeremy Heywood 1961– English economist and civil servant (died 2018) John Frost 1912– Indian-English general (died 1993) King Kelly 1857– American baseball player and manager (died 1894) Matt Cross 1980– American wrestler Muhammad ibn al-Qasim 695– Umayyad general (died 715) Ray Graves 1918– American football player and coach (died 2015) Vishnudevananda Saraswati 1927– Indian yoga guru (died 1993)

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