| LC control no. | n 90624176 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Slovo, Joe |
| Variant(s) | Slovo, Yossel Mashel |
| Associated country | South Africa |
| Birth date | 1926-05-23 |
| Death date | 1995-01-06 |
| Place of birth | Obeliai (Lithuania) |
| Place of death | South Africa |
| Field of activity | Political activism |
| Affiliation | South African Communist Party Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa) University of the Witwatersrand South African Communist Party Congress of Democrats (South Africa) |
| Profession or occupation | Anti-apartheid activists Communists Lawyers Human rights workers Public officers |
| Found in | nuc89-69206: His The South African working class ... 1988 (hdg.: Slovo, Joe; usage: Joe Slovo) LC data base, 03-26-90 (hdg.: Slovo, Joe) Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the war against apartheid, 2013: ECIP galley (Joe Slovo; b. May 23, 1926 in Obelei, near Vilna) Rhodes University website, viewed Apr. 9, 2013: History of Joe Slovo (b. Yossel Mashel Slovo in Lithuania; joined the South African Communist Party in 1942; in 1961 he emerged as a leader of Umkhonto weSizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress; on ANC's revolutionary council 1969-1983; became general secretary of SACP in 1986; served as Minister of Housing, 1994; d. Jan. 5, 1995) The independent, Jan. 7, 1995, viewed online Apr. 9, 2013: obituary: Joe Slovo (d. Johannesburg Jan. 6, 1995) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed September 14, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Slovo, Joe; Yossel Mashel; lawyer, leading South African communist and antiapartheid activist, government official (foreign); born 1926 in Obel, Lithuania; in 1936 moved to Johannesburg, South Africa where his Lithuania Jewish family had settled; involved in trade unionism; joined the Communist Party; joined the army (1941); awarded an ex-serviceman's five-year scholarship to study law at the University of the Witwatersrand (1946); was outwardly a successful advocate / barrister but secretly active in the underground reestablishment of the South African Communist Party (SACP) (1953); involved in legal activities of the Congress of Democrats, an organization allied to the African National Congress (ANC) (1950s); in exile from (1962); became minister of housing in Nelson Mandela's government (1994); died 1995 in South Africa, received a state funeral in Soweto) |
| Associated language | eng |
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