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e. Yossel Mashel Slovo (23 May 1926 – 6 January 1995), commonly known as Joe Slovo, was a South African politician, and an opponent of the apartheid system. A Marxist-Leninist, he was a long-time leader and theorist in the South African Communist Party (SACP), a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a commander of the ANC ...
Jan 6, 1995 · Slovo was an active member of the South Africa Communist Party (SACP) from the 1940s and, after becoming an advocate at the Johannesburg Bar, became well known for his work as a defence lawyer in political trials. He married Ruth First, daughter of SACP treasurer Julius First, in 1949.
Jun 18, 2018 · Joe Slovo, activist, was a founder of the armed wing of the ANC, and general secretary of the South African Communist Party during the 1980s.
Jun 8, 2015 · History of Joe Slovo. Born Yossel Mashel Slovo to Jewish parents in Lithuania in 1926, Joe Slovo came to South Africa in 1934 at the age of eight when his family emigrated to escape the anti-Semitism then rampant in Europe.
Slovo, although more centrally involved in the armed fight against apartheid, survived to serve in Mandela’s government in 1994, but First was assassinated by the regime in 1982. Ruth First and Joe Slovo are arguably among the most important of the anti-apartheid activists.
Jan 6, 1995 · Joe Slovo, the communist intellectual widely credited with being one of the masterminds of South Africa's national reconciliation, died after a long battle with cancer of the bone marrow. He was a long- time National Chairperson of the South African Communist Party.
Jan 6, 1995 · Joe Slovo, the Communist intellectual widely credited with being a mastermind of South Africa's national reconciliation, died early today, his spokesman, Stephen Laufer, announced. He was...
Joe Slovo: Internationalist and Communist. South African Communist Party on the legacy and internationalism of Joe Slovo. Joe Slovo with Winnie Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Nelson Mandela. January 6 was the anniversary of the death of Joe Slovo, an iconic hero in the fight against Apartheid in South Africa.
Jan 7, 1995 · Joe Slovo, the Communist intellectual widely credited with being a mastermind of South Africa's national reconciliation, died yesterday after a long battle with cancer of the bone marrow....
Ruth First and Joe Slovo, husband and wife, were leaders of the war to end apartheid in South Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromising militant...
