Ampie Muller
Ampie Muller (1930-2019). Academic, conflict negotiator, radio announcer and part-time actor.
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Biography
Born Adriaan Diederichs Muller in Warden, Orange Free State, on 27 December 1930, the brother of the journalist and editor Piet Muller, he had his schooling at the Dirkie Uys Hoërskool in Warden (1937 – 1948), before going to the University of Pretoria to study psychology. He obtained a B.A., a B.A. Hons and an M.A. degree there between 1949 – 1954 and went to the Free University Amsterdam to complete the Drs. Psigoligiae and a D.Litt et Phil.
He was professor and dean at a number of South African universities for more than 30 years and spent his academic life working as a consultant in the fields of conflict resolution, organizational development and the creative use of differences. In this respect he was inter alia the founding Chair of the South African Association for Conflict Intervention in 1986, the Senior Consultant at the Centre for Intergroup Studies (now the Centre for Conflict Resolution at the University of Cape Town) for 21 years and a member of the National Peace Committee after Nelson Mandela was released.
His first wife was Renee Louw, the daughter of N.P. van Wyk Louw and Truida Louw. In the 1990s he met and married Beverley Roos-Muller, a colleague at Fine Music Radio.
He passed away in Cape Town on 5 September, 2019.
Contribution to South African Theatre, Film, Media and Performance
As an actor, he was a member of the Johannesburg amateur company JAATS, and had roles in a number of their productions, including Bitter Einde in 1955.
He joined Fine Music Radio in March 1996 as an announcer and later editor, working there till February 2016.
Sources
Helikon, 5(21), 1955.
https://www.accord.org.za/people/ampie-muller/
https://za.linkedin.com/in/ampie-muller-3b425227
Die Burger, 7 September 2019.
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