La Guma, Alex

LC control no.	n 50041745
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR9369.3.L3
Personal name heading	La Guma, Alex *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Guma, Alex la La Guma, Justin Alexander
Associated country	London (England) South Africa
Birth date	1925
Death date	1985-10
Place of birth	Cape Town (South Africa)
Place of death	Havana (Cuba)
Field of activity	Anti-apartheid movements
Affiliation	African National Congress Cape Technical College London School of Journalism Plant Workers Union Young Communists League (South Africa)
Profession or occupation	Journalists Novelists Authors Labor leaders
Found in	His A walk in the night, 1962 or 3. Asein, S.O. Alex La Guma, c1987: title page (Alex La Guma) page 4 of cover (d. Oct. 1985) BL database, 27 Jan. 2010 (hdg.: La Guma, Justin Alexander; usage: Alex La Guma) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1925; writer of short stories) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed February 18, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (La Guma, Alex; Justin Alexander La Guma; print journalist, labor organizer/leader, fiction writer, anti-apartheid fighter; born 1925 in Cape Town, South Africa; completed matriculation examinations as night student at Cape Technical College (1945); studied by correspondence at London School of Journalism (1965); joined the Plant Workers Union and Metal Box Company, the Young Communists League (1947) and the South African Communist Party (1948); became a reporter at The Guardian newspaper (later called New Age); became a leader of the South African Colored People's Organization (SACPO) (1954); was one of the 156 accused in Treason Trial (1956-1961); went with his family into exile in London (1966); worked as insurance clerk, journalist, and radio scriptwriter, London; was the ANC representative in the Caribbean, Havana, Cuba (1978-1985); became one of the most respected South African novelists in sub-Saharan Africa; died 1985 in Havana, Cuba)