Pretoria - Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande has added his voice to those expressing shock and sadness at the passing on of Professor Bernard Magubane.
Magubane passed away at his home in Johannesburg on Friday.
Professor Magubane, a historian and sociologist, was one of South Africa’s leading social scientists.
He was born in 1930 on a farm near Colenso in KwaZulu-Natal and moved with his family to Durban where they stayed in Cato Manor informal settlement.
His experiences of apartheid oppression turned him onto a political activist.
Nzimande said that, Magubane’s passing on is a sad loss within the ranks of progressive academia.
“An eminent academic and a leading Marxist intellectual, he spent many years in exile, teaching at universities in the United States where he was a member of the ANC and a leading anti-activist of the anti-apartheid movement in the USA.
“I would like to extend my deepest condolences to Prof Magubane’s family and friends, who have lost a father and a loved one. The academic community and all democratically minded South Africans have lost a true inspirational leader and a great intellectual,” Nzimande said. – SAnews.gov.za
