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Patrick van Rensburg is an African educationalist who founded the Brigades Movement in Botswana, and the Foundation for Education with Production which is active in South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe.
Van Rensburg was South African Vice-Consul in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) until 1956, when he resigned as a protest against South Africa's apartheid policies of racial discrimination. He joined the Liberal Party of South Africa and later moved to Bechuanaland (now Botswana). The title Consul has been used for official representatives of a state, outside its (metropolitan) territory, looking after its interests (a task normally largely transferred to the formal diplomacy) and, especially, those of its subjects, individuals as well as enterprises. ...
The Belgian Congo was the formal title of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between King Léopold IIs formal relinquishment of personal control over the state to Belgium on 15 November, 1908, to the dawn of Congolese independence on 30 June, 1960. ...
A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ...
Liberal Party is the name of dozens of political parties around the world. ...
The Bechuanaland Protectorate (BP) was a protectorate established in 1885 by Britain in the area of what is now Botswana. ...
Works - Guilty Land. London: Penguin, 1962. ISBN B0000CL9AT
- Report from Swaneng Hill. Uppsala: Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, 1974. ISBN 9185214019
- The Serowe brigades: Alternative education in Botswana. Macmillan for the Bernard van Leer Foundation, 1978. ISBN 0333235940
- With Andrew Boyd. Atlas of African Affairs. London: Methuen, 1962. ISBN 0416647707.
Van Rensburg has written a number of studies and papers for the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation. Penguin Books is a British publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. ...
Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately-held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. ...
Methuen & Co Limited is a firm of British publishers, which began publishing in London in 1892. ...
Order: 2nd Secretary-General Term of Office: April 10, 1953–September 18, 1961 Predecessor: Trygve Lie Successor: U Thant Born: July 29, 1905 Place of birth: Jönköping, Sweden Died: September 18, 1961 Place of death: Ndola, Northern Rhodesia Dag Hammarskjöld (July 29, 1905 – September 18, 1961) was a Swedish diplomat...
Awards Jakob von Uexkull, founder of the Right Livelihood Award The Right Livelihood Award, established in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull, is presented annually in the Swedish Parliament, on December 9, to honour those working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today. An international...
Bill Mollison (born 1928) has been called the father of permaculture, an integrated system of design co-developed with David Holmgren that encompasses not only agriculture, horticulture, architecture and ecology but also money management, land access strategies and legal systems for businesses and communities. ...
References - "Patrick van Rensburg in Botswana". Contact Vol 5, No 13, 28 June 1962. Retrieved 19 April 2006.
- Right Livelihood Award: Roll of honour. Biography of Patrick van Rensburg. Retrieved 19 April 2006.
External links - Dag Hammarskjold Foundation.
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