Harold Wolpe

Harold Wolpe (14 January 1926 - 19 January 1996) was a South African political economist and writer who was involved in anti-apartheid politics. He was arrested and put in prison in 1963 but escaped and spent 30 years in exile in the United Kingdom. He returned to South Africa in 1990.

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Harold Wolpe was born in 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian-Jewish family.

Wolpe graduated from the Witwatersrand University with a BA in Social Science and an LLB.

He married AnnMarie Kantor in 1955 and they gave birth to three children - Peta, Tessa and Nicholas.