Harold Wolpe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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South African political economist
Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1926
Place of Birth: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Date of Death: 19-Jan-1996
Profession: economist
Nationality: South Africa
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Harold Wolpe
- Harold Wolpe (14 January 1926 – 19 January 1996) was a South African lawyer, sociologist, political economist and anti-apartheid activist.
- He was arrested and put in prison in 1963 but escaped and spent 30 years in exile in the United Kingdom.
- He was a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex between 1972 and 1991 when he moved back to South Africa with his wife to direct the Education Policy Unit at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town.
- White rule ended three years later.
- He died of a sudden heart attack in 1996.
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