Career
He was one of the editors of the seminal book Language and control (1979), which helped establish critical linguistics as an academic field He obtained a Bachelor in Political Theory from the University of Witwatersrand in 1962. His overt political compromise against apartheid led to his being imprisoned from 1964 to 1965 for collaboration with noted activist Edward Joseph Daniels.
At his release he left the country for the United Kingdom, where he continued his studies at Oxford University.
In 1970 he was appointed a lecturer at the University of East Anglia, where he taught logic, history of science and discourse analysis. A year later he was transferred to the Office of the President as Director of Communications Research, a post he held until 1999.
From 2002 he is Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the office of Strategy and Content Management. He was portrayed by Trevor Sellers in the British Broadcasting Corporation film Endgame.
