[1] He was four times elected President of the Psychological Society of South Africa, and was Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Durban-Westville (prior to its merger).
[4] Cooper was born in a rural area outside Durban, South Africa where his parents ran a local school.
He grew up understanding and using multiple languages including Zulu, Tamil, Afrikaans, Xhosa, and English.
[5] Cooper became politically active in high school and continued to be politically active throughout college, which may have resulted in his expulsion from the University College, Salisbury Island, Durban as well as the South African government denying him a passport to attend university in Britain.
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