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Neville Alexander

Neville Edward Alexander
Alexander at the World Conference of African Linguistics in Cologne in September 2009
Born(1936-10-22)22 October 1936
Died27 August 2012(2012-08-27) (aged 75)
EducationHoly Cross School, Cradock, South Africa
Alma materUniversity of Cape Town BA & MA, PhD (University of Tübingen)
Occupation(s)Political activist, educationalist & academic: lecturer at various institutes and universities
Known forJailmate of Nelson Mandela and Linguapax winner

Neville Edward Alexander OLS (22 October 1936 – 27 August 2012) was a proponent of a multilingual South Africa and a former revolutionary who spent ten years on Robben Island as a fellow-prisoner of Nelson Mandela.


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