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Dip Arch (Wits) Studied at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 1952 he designed a metallic constructivist sculpture for the entrance of City Gardens in Hillbrow by Oscar HIRSCH and Ivan B SIVE (Chipkin 1993:226). In 1955 he won first prize for painting at the Pretoria Central Exhibition. He taught privately at the time. In 1959 he designed the sets and costumes for the indigenous musical theatre 'King Kong' (Berman 1983:157). In 1963 he was owner of the Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia where leaders of the ANC and SACP were arrested by the then security police (Chipkin 1993:226). He left South Africa as a political fugitive, moving to London where he studied art at the Central Art School under Victor Passmore, also working in London. Thereafter he immigrated to Israel where he furthered his studies at the Institute of Technology, Haifa (Berman 1983:157). Books citing GOLDREICH
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