Uncompromising Lis Lange was a gift to South African higher education

Last week South Africa lost one of its most formidable academic thinkers and doers. Just last month, we were talking on the phone from her place of recovery in the Boland town of McGregor, where two small machines were helping her breathe. The machines were not enough, her lungs further deteriorated, and Lis would die in a Cape Town hospital.