Former Australian diplomat Bruce Haigh, whose work helping anti-apartheid activists was portrayed in the film Cry Freedom, has died.
Bruce Haigh the retired Australian diplomat who served in South Africa and helped anti-apartheid activists, died in Wollongong on Good Friday after battling cancer. He was 77.
Confirming his passing at home his sister Christina Henderson said that his health had deteriorated two weeks ago and the family got him airlifted out of Vientiane, Laos, where he was holidaying on his own.: “It was very sudden but Bruce lived a full life to the end. He started his life with the Shell oil company which he didn’t enjoy, he was a roughneck on a rig, did jackarooing, then he was called up in the army, after that, he went to university and became a diplomat then a farmer.