 So, in 1927, Findlay returned to South Africa as a young philosophy lecturer at the University of Pretoria, his first appointment in an extended Wanderjahre that included positions at Dunedin (New Zealand, 1933–1944) Grahamstown (Eastern Cape, S.A.1944–6), Pietermartizberg (Natal, S.A, 1946–1948). It was at Dunedin that he met and married his wife Aileen Hawthorn, with whom he had three children in the early 1940s.