Global InformationSedick Isaacs information
Sedick Isaacs | |
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 Isaacs in 1979 | |
| Born | May 24, 1940 Bo-Kaap, Cape Province, South Africa |
| Died | October 18, 2012 (aged 72) Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa |
| Other names | Sadiq Isaacs |
| Alma mater | University of Cape Town |
| Notable work | Surviving in the Apartheid Prison: Robben Island: Flash Backs of an Earlier Life (2010) |
Sedick Isaacs (24 May 1940 – 18 October 2012) was a South African anti-Apartheid activist, physician, professor, and author.
Isaacs is best known for his 2010 book Surviving in the Apartheid Prison in which he detailed the experiences of his nearly thirteen-year prison sentence from 1964 to 1977 at Robben Island Prison in South Africa.[1] During his time at Robben Island, he educated Jacob Zuma and Dikgang Moseneke, was an associate of Nelson Mandela, and was a co-founder of the Robben Island football club Makana F.A.
Isaacs is also well known for his contributions to the field of health informatics in Africa as founding president of both Health Informatics in Africa (HELINA) and the South African Health Informatics Association (SAHIA). He was also the Professor of Medical Informatics at the University of Cape Town from 1986 to 2005.[2]
- ^ Isaacs, Sedick (2010). Surviving in the Apartheid Prison: Robben Island: Flash Backs of an earlier life. Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris. pp. 1–32. ISBN 978-1453538074. Retrieved 2023-04-13 – via Scribd.
- ^ "Sedick Isaacs Has Passed Away (Update)". IMIA News. International Medical Informatics Association. 2012-10-19. Retrieved 2023-04-13.