The Unacceptable Face

As sunrise unveiled the silhouette of Table Mountain, Flemming, aged 23, stepped ashore in Cape Town to start his peregrine career under the deepening shadow of apartheid. He was born Danish in colonial Malaya and fled the Japanese invasion to spend World War II in Australia as a refugee before returning to liberated Denmark. His education included the perils of wartime, trauma of family separations, deprivations of post-war recovery and ten schools before graduation from Cambridge Universi...