Hans Beukes is a Namibian writer and former activist.
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.
[1] Beukes is the Scandinavian correspondent for the Cape Town-based Die Burger newspaper.