Hans Beukes

{{short description|Namibian writer and political activist}}

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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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120523213410/http://www.namibian.com.na/news/full-story/archive/2010/september/article/un-petitioners-retrace-long-road-to-freedom/ UN petitioners retrace long road to freedom] The Namibian, 24 September 2010 Beukes is the Scandinavian correspondent for the Cape Town-based Die Burger newspaper.[https://www.namibian.com.na/unam-a-tribal-college/ Unam – A Tribal College?] The Namibian 19 September 2008 He published his memoirs Long Road to Liberation. An Exiled Namibian Activist's Perspective in 2014.{{Cite news | title=Hans Beukes' 'Long Road to Liberation' | last=du Pisani | first=André | authorlink=André du Pisani | newspaper=The Namibian | date=9 October 2018 | page=8 | url=https://www.namibian.com.na/hans-beukes-long-road-to-liberation/}}