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IN MEMORIAM – JUNE 2021
PASSING OF AN EMINENT FELLOW: KEMP J KEMP SC
On 27 January 2021 Adv Kemp Jurgen Kemp SC passed away at the age of 69 despite having just fought off a serious bout of Covid-19 infection.
He was born in Kirkwood, a small Eastern Cape village, and grew up on a citrus farm in the vicinity of Kirkwood.
In his youth he was an accomplished rugby player and an exceptionally talented 400 and 800 metre athlete.
He attended the Nelson Mandela University (NMU), then the University of Port Elizabeth, on a sports bursary and gained his LL.B.
summa cum laude in considerably less time than is usually the case.
He went on to study law at Oxford under Professor Tony Honoré. Fellow students at the time were Edwin Cameron and Jeremy Gauntlett.
On his return to South Africa, he was awarded his Doctorate in Law at the tender age of 27.
After initially lecturing law at NMU, he took up a post as a lecturer at the University of Zululand (Unizul) where he went o