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Slovo, Joe

LC control no.n 90624176
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Personal name headingSlovo, Joe
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Variant(s)Slovo, Yossel Mashel
Associated countrySouth Africa
Birth date1926-05-23
Death date1995-01-06
Place of birthObeliai (Lithuania)
Place of deathSouth Africa
Field of activityPolitical activism
AffiliationSouth African Communist Party
Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa)
University of the Witwatersrand South African Communist Party
Congress of Democrats (South Africa)
Profession or occupationAnti-apartheid activists Communists Lawyers Human rights workers Public officers
Found innuc89-69206: 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 languageeng