Horst Kleinschmidt

After going into exile in 1976, Horst Kleinschmidt became the director of the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, based in London. In 1992 he returned to SA to be director of both the Kagiso and Mvula trusts and later headed the SA Fisheries Ministry. He was awarded a Knighthood by the King of Sweden in 1999 (the Order of the Polar Star, First Class, for his role in aiding political detainees and prisoners in southern Africa), and the 1991 Bruno Kreisky Prize (Austria) for services to human rights.