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Richard Rive

Died in 1989

Richard Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Cape Town and grew up in District Six. Trained at Hewat Training College, where he later taught, he was also a teacher at a high school in Cape Town; as a student he had been South African hurdles champion, and he later coached the athletes of his school. A graduate of the University of Cape Town, he obtained a master's degree at Columbia University in 1966, then a doctorate at Oxford, at Magdalen College, in 1974. He died at home in Cape Town, during the night of 4 to 5 June 1989.

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