Today--well, Thursday in South Africa--marks the funeral for one of the most amazing people I have had the privilege to know personally.
This is the last photo taken of a gentle giant of a man who changed his world, and changed our world.
Kobus van Wyk, we will NEVER forget you.
This was Kobus van Wyk, talking to our American students from SCC and MSU, explaining the need for a change in housing development to end the legacy of apartheid in South African Townships. In spite of the chair blocking the view, I like this picture because his passion shows so clearly. He spoke quietly but with a gentle force you couldn't ignore. We all fell in love with him.
Kobus had spent the last twenty years building the Human Settlement Development Management Degree program at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. This week, the program launches its first group of students. His dream is becoming reality.
His legacy will live on.
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