OBITUARY: Ben Dekker — forester, actor, philosopher who stood for Parliament from a fruit barrow

Ben Dekker challenged the leader of the opposition to a swim to Robben Island, wrote a thesis on African philosophy that no South African university would accept, and settled in a hut on the Wild Coast with a garden, a forest and an ocean as a constant neighbour.

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