birth_place nationality institution birth_date article_title name alma_mater
kroonstad south african university of stellenbosch 17 april 1933 sampie terreblanche
 solomon johannes terreblanche university -rrb- harvard -lrb- 1968 -- 1969 -rrb- of stellenbosch -lrb- ma -rrb- -lrb- pd.d .
sampie terreblanche

solomon johannes `` sampie '' terreblanche is an afrikaner academic and writer , author of numerous economics books and is most famous for his `` history of inequality in south africa , 1652 - 2002 '' .
he is professor emeritus of economics at stellenbosch university , where he has built a reputation as a lecturer in economic thought and economic history .
terreblanche matriculated from edenville high school in the orange free state and went on to study at the university of stellenbosch .
whilst at stellenbosch he obtained his master 's degree and a doctorate in philosophy .
after which he went on to spend a year at harvard university in 1968/1969 .
terreblanche lectured at the university of the orange free state for eight years .
he returned to lecture at stellenbosch university from 1968 until his retirement in 1995 .
in the 1980s terreblanche was involved in clandestine meetings with the anc and in 1985 he was made chairman of the newly formed `` discussion group ' 85 '' at stellenbosch .
in 1987 he quit the national party due to growing doubts and disagreements with its policies of apartheid and became one of the government 's strongest afrikaans critics .
he was a founding member of the democratic party -lrb- forerunner to the democratic alliance -rrb- but is no longer involved in politics .
in 2008 he co-wrote an article to the south african media with drucilla cornell and mahmood mamdani calling for the establishment of a justice and reconciliation commission to `` educate whites , who were the beneficiaries of this exploitative system , as well as to develop a programme of reparations , restitution and perhaps most important , the establishment of economic measures that could effectively grapple with the devastating institutional effects of an internal system of colonisation . ''
