Eddie Roux
South African activist and botanist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Eddie Roux was a Transvaal Colony-born botanist, academic, writer, member of the South African Communist Party and anti-apartheid activist. Early life He was born Edward Roux to Afrikaner father Phillip R. Roux, a pharmacist and botanist, who was involved in the Labour Party and English mother, Edith May Wilson. He grew up in Bezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg. Roux's political view were further inspired by the events of the 1917 Russian Revolution. After matriculating at Jeppe High School, he enrolled at the University of Witwatersrand and studied botany and zoology. At university, he joined in demonstrations against Jan Smuts' policies and met Sidney Bunting, later a leading member of the new South African Communist Party. In 1925, he would obtain an honour's degree in Biology and a scholarship to Cambridge University. From 1926, he was studying at Downing College, Cambridge. He completed his PhD at Cambridge in 1929 and then returned to South Africa. After failing to obtain a position at the University of Fort Hare mainly due to his non-religious views, his old lecturer Charles Moss helped him obtain a research position at the Department of Agriculture's, Low Temperature Research Laboratory in Cape Town. He was dismissed from that position in 1929 after joining demonstrations conducted by the African National Congress .
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