David Herbert obituary by Paola Prina-Cerai

In the 1950s, my husband David Herbert, who has died aged 85, quit his job in a bank in South Africa to become an actor and was employed by the National Theatre Organisation. While working with black actors, he was cautioned by the State Security Bureau, eventually arrested and thrown into solitary confinement. After the intervention of an influential uncle, he was freed on the understanding that he must leave South …

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