Raphael Kaplinsky | |
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![]() Kaplinsky in 1968 | |
Born | South Africa | 31 December 1946
Spouse | Catherine |
Children | 2, including Natasha Kaplinsky |
Academic work | |
Institutions | SPRU, University of Sussex |
Website | https://raphiekaplinsky.com/ |
Raphael Malcolm Kaplinsky (born 31 December 1946)[1][2] is a professorial fellow, Science Policy Research Unit, and emeritus professorial fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.[3] He was one of the leaders of 1968 Mafeje affair protest.
Kaplinsky's father Morris and his wife, who were both Polish Jews, migrated from the town of Slonim (then in Poland, now in Belarus), to South Africa in 1929.[4] As a student Kaplinsky took part in Cape Town University's Mafeje affair protests which resulted in him having to flee South Africa to the United Kingdom in the 1960s.[5]
Kaplinsky married Catherine Charlewood, a psychoanalyst. They have a daughter, Natasha Kaplinsky, a TV presenter (born 1972) and a son, Benjamin Kaplinsky, a lawyer (born 1975).[6]
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