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Jonty Driver (Charles Jonathan Driver) was born on 19 August, 1939 in Cape Town, South Africa, is a South African activist (1939–2023). Discover Jonty Driver's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

Popular As Charles Jonathan Driver
Occupation Anti-apartheid activist former political prisoner educationalist poet writer
Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 19 August 1939
Birthday 19 August
Birthplace Cape Town, South Africa
Date of death 21 May, 2023
Died Place Bristol, England
Nationality South Africa

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1939

Charles Jonathan Driver (19 August 1939 – 21 May 2023), usually known as Jonty Driver, was a South African anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner, educationalist, poet and writer.

Charles Jonathan Driver was born in Cape Town in 1939 but spent the years of the Second World War in Kroonstad and Cradock with his mother and younger brother and his grandfather, who was the rector of the Anglican parish there.

During this period, Driver's father did wartime service in North Africa, and was captured by the Axis forces at Tobruk, spending the rest of the war as a prisoner of war in Italy and Germany.

When he came back to South Africa, the family moved to Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, where his father was appointed chaplain at St. Andrew's College and where Jonty later did his schooling.

Driver did his undergraduate study at the University of Cape Town (UCT).

1963

He was elected president of the National Union of South African Students in 1963 and again in 1964.

1964

In August and September 1964, he was detained without trial by the police and held in solitary confinement, possibly because of his suspected involvement in the African Resistance Movement, on his release he immediately left for England.

He went to Trinity College, Oxford, to read for an M.Phil.

While he was at Oxford, the South African authorities refused to renew his passport and he became stateless for several years, eventually becoming a British citizen.

For more than twenty years, he was prohibited from returning to South Africa.

1973

After his time at Oxford, Driver taught at Sevenoaks School in Kent and then at Matthew Humberstone Comprehensive School in Lincolnshire (formerly Humberside) after 1973, where he was Director of Sixth-Form Studies.

1976

He wrote Patrick Duncan: South African and Pan-African while on a sabbatical from the school in 1976 and before taking up his next appointment.

In 1976, he was a Research Fellow at the University of York, and for 23 years he was a headmaster (Principal, Island School, Hong Kong, 1978–83; Headmaster, Berkhamsted School, 1983–9; Master, Wellington College, 1989–2000).

2007

Driver was an honorary senior lecturer at the School of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, a post he held since 2007.

Driver was a judge for the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2007 and 2008.

He was a fellow of the Bogliasco Foundation in 2007.

2009

He was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, USA, in the fall of 2009, and a fellow at the Hawthornden Writers' Retreat in March/April 2011.

Jonty Driver was married, with three children and eight grandchildren.

He died on 21 May 2023, at the age of 83.

2019

As of November 2019, Driver was a full-time writer, though he continued his involvement in education.