Barry Dwolatzky
Barry Dwolatzky was a South African software engineer. He was a professor emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand Joburg Centre for Software Engineering. Dwolatzky was on University of the People's computer science advisory board. He was an anti-apartheid activist and in the late 1980's he joined the African National Congress's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe ("spear of the nation").
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Coded History: My Life of New Beginnings
For the first time, Barry Dwolatzky shares stories about his life in Apartheid South Africa, his experiences living in Britain in the 1980s and the mission that brought him back to South Africa and Wits University.
After being diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia, Barry Dwolatzky left Britain and returned to South Africa in 1989 after living in self-imposed exile. With this fresh chapter of his life, he took an appointment at Wits University and went on to dedicate three decades of his life to educating future generations of software engineers and working professionals.
But what brought him back to his homeland in 1989, and inspired him to achieve these accolades? What made him want to contribute to such significant events?