I find it rather interesting that "doc", as we used to call him at Livingstone High Sc hool, is receiving a prize for his efforts in language. Good on you 'doc'. After all those canings I got in your history class, and having also 'educated' myself ( research done at the LSE, first degree at Sussex Univ., taught for the Open University, taught maths and computer science in schools, and the pupil whom you said to Kenny Jordaan, "I never got through to him!") and taken part in local and international politics (gave the London Mafia who now control SA the thumbs down in 1968! Was at Sussex at the same time as Thabo, a pupil of Andropov and a Putin clone! Would not give the time of day to Essop Pahad, that London bus driver! As for Frini Ginwala..... well..... the less said the better!) My ex-girlfriend from Sussex Univ., Hilary Bower, was taken in by you when she met you in Cape Town. But then, she was also a German linguist who taught at Heidelberg Univ. So now, as a pensioner in London, I congratulate you. You've done well for yourself. Take care.
Abe Oppel