# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrick-van-rensburg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:00:03.371Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patrick-van-rensburg"
name: "Patrick van Rensburg"
slug: "patrick-van-rensburg"
description: "Patrick van Rensburg was a South African-born anti-apartheid activist and educator. In the 1960s, he founded Swaneng Hill School in Serowe, Botswana, and the nationwide Brigades Movement in that country. In the 1980s, he founded the Mmegi national newspaper and the Foundation for Education with Production, which promoted his ideas in South Africa, Botswana, and Zimbabwe. In 1981, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award \"for developing replicable educational models for the third world majority\"."
tagline: "Motswana writer (1931-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Staff_house%2C_Swaneng.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-12-03"
deathDate: "2017-05-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.804104
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Patrick van Rensburg"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Rensburg"
    title: "Patrick van Rensburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Rensburg"
    title: "Patrick van Rensburg"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Rensburg"
    title: "Patrick van Rensburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Rensburg"
    title: "Patrick van Rensburg"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Rensburg"
    title: "Patrick van Rensburg"
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  - url: "https://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_van_Rensburg"
    title: "Patrick van Rensburg"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%B9%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%AF"
    title: "پیٹرک وین رینسبرگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q714147"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump