* Tragic news of Japie Vermeulen
@ 2001-02-14 15:53 Christopher R A Gilmour
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From: Christopher R A Gilmour @ 2001-02-14 15:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Dear colleagues
It is with great sadness and pain that I tell you that
Japie Vermeulen died tragically on the night of Sunday 11
February. He was on his way back from visiting family in
Ceres, about a two-hour journey from Cape Town. He had
taken a route through Bain's Kloof, a spectacular pass
over the mountains between Ceres and Wellington. It was
established that his car was overheating, the radiator was
found to be empty and there was a hole in a water pipe. He
had taken a container and attempted to descend a steep
path to fetch water from a stream. He slipped and fell
10 to 15 metres, hitting his head and fracturing his skull.
He died instantly. His body was eventually found, after a
search, at 5pm on Monday.
All who knew Japie will mourn a wonderful human being and a
brilliant mind.
______________________________________________________________________
Prof Christopher Gilmour, E-mail: CRAG@maths.uct.ac.za
Department of Mathematics Phone: +27-(0) 21-650-4065
and Applied Mathematics, or 650-3192
University of Cape Town, Fax: +27-(0) 21-650-2334
Rondebosch 7701,
South Africa
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