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Hans Beukes is a Namibian writer and former activist. Beukes left South Africa where he was a student at UCT in 1959 to appear at the UN as a petitioner on the South West Africa issue. To leave Beukes had to be smuggled out of South Africa in a Volkswagen Beetle. Beukes later earned a scholarship to study in Norway, where he still lived as of 2010. He only returned to Namibia briefly prior to independence in 1989. Beukes is the Scandinavian correspondent for the Cape Town-based Die Burger newspaper. He published his memoirs Long Road to Liberation. An Exiled Namibian Activist's Perspective in 2014.

References

1. UN petitioners retrace long road to freedom The Namibian, 24 September 2010
2. Unam – A Tribal College? The Namibian 19 September 2008
3. du Pisani, André (9 October 2018). "Hans Beukes' 'Long Road to Liberation'". The Namibian. p. 8.

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