Vernon Berrangé
| Vernon Celliers Berrangé | |
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| Born |
25 November 1900 Pretoria |
| Died | 14 September 1983 (aged 82) Swaziland |
| Education | University of Cape Town, 1924 |
| Occupation | Advocate |
| Years active | 1924–1966 |
| Political party | Communist |
| Awards | Grand Companion of OR Tambo |
Vernon Celliers Berrangé SCOT "Defender of the People" (25 November 1900 – 14 September 1983) was an eminent South African human rights advocate (QC)
Berrangé's forebears were in the third wave of French Huguenots who went to the Cape (via Holland) in 1775 and as history evolved became Afrikaners (Boers). The Berrangés were essentially a clerical family, but there were also "sick-comforters," medical doctors, public servants, politicians and advocates. Berrangé's maternal grandfather, Johannes C. Krogh of Danish extraction, was Special Commissioner sent from the South African Republic to Swaziland (1894 to 1898), head of the Boundary Commission that settled the border between Swaziland and Moçambique (Maputo) in 1897 and one of the Boer signatories to the "Treaty of the Peace of Vereeniging".
Berrangé married (7 March 1930) Yolande Viviane Brewer, née de Pierres, who loved and supported him in all ways for 50 years until her death (1980). They had one son, Jevan Pierres Berrangé (b. 1931); a daughter Gelda Berrangé (b. 1927), and a son Eric Brewer (b. 15 June 1921, d. 30 March 2010) from their respective earlier marriages.
Berrangé was born in Pretoria soon after it had been occupied by the British during the Anglo-Boer War. He received his primary education at the Falk Real Gymnasium in Berlin (1907–1910) and at the German School in Johannesburg (1911). His secondary school was Hilton College, Natal, where he is commemorated on a plaque as "Scholar of the Year'". On leaving school (1917) he enlisted as one of Major Miller's recruits and became a Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, being trained in Kent, UK. After demobilisation (1919) he returned to South Africa and worked briefly for the Institute for Medical Research before going to the University of Cape Town from which he graduated (1924) with a law degree – BA LLB
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