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Joe Slovo Politician

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: South Africa
  • Born: May 23, 1926
  • Died: Jan 6, 1995

Joe Slovo was a South African politician, an opponent of the apartheid system. He was a long-time leader of the South African Communist Party, a leading member of the African National Congress, and a commander of the ANC's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe.

A white South African citizen of Jewish Lithuanian family, Slovo was a delegate to the multiracial Congress of the People of June 1955 which drew up the Freedom Charter. He was imprisoned for six months in 1960, and emerged as a leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe the following year. He lived in exile from 1963 to 1990, conducting operations against the apartheid régime from the United Kingdom, Angola, Mozambique and Zambia. In 1990 he returned to South Africa, and took part in the negotiations that ended apartheid. After the elections of 1994, he became Minister for Housing in Nelson Mandela's government. He died of cancer in 1995.

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop. morning

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists. trust

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