Epitaphs and dreams
Poems to remember the struggle
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Brixton, South Africa
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Patrick FitzGerald was born in 1954 in Gauteng, South Africa. He studied politics and philosophy at Wits University and was a founder member of the Junction Avenue Theatre Company. As Vice-President of the SRC, and later General-Secretary of the National Union of South African Students, he was regularly arrested and detained. Active in the ANC underground inside the country he went into exile in Gaborone in 1979, where he joined the MEDU Art Ensemble. In 1984 he was redeployed to Lusaka as Administrative Secretary of the ANC Department of Arts and Culture, later furthering his studies at Liverpool University.
Returning from exile in 1990 he founded the Wits School of Governance and joined the democratic government as a Public Service Commissioner and a Director-General. Rejoining Higher Education in 2000 he served as Interim Vice-Chancellor at Limpopo University, founding Chair of Council for Walter Sisulu University and as a Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of the Witwatersrand.
