He trained in general surgery and urology at Groote Schuur Hospital, where he ran the kidney transplant unit.
He has been visiting professor to numerous academic institutions, including a year at the University College London.
Naude is the only South African elected to honorary membership of the British Association of Urological Surgeons.
During 2003 and 2004 he worked in Mozambique, where he helped to establish a department of urology at the teaching hospital in Maputo.
He delivered the opening address and chaired the International symposium on "Reconstructive Urological Surgery in the Tropics" in Hawaii in 2004.