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Kotane, Moses Mauane, 1905-1978

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Personal name headingKotane, Moses Mauane, 1905-1978
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Variant(s)Kotane, Moses M., 1905-1978
Associated countrySouth Africa
Associated placeCape Town (South Africa) Russia Tanzania
Birth date1905-08-09
Death date1978-05-19
Place of birthTamposstad (South Africa)
Place of deathMoscow (Russia)
Field of activityAnti-apartheid movements Communism
AffiliationVoenno-politicheskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ imeni V.I. Lenina African National Congress South African Communist Party
African Bakers Union
South African Communist Party
Communist Party of South Africa
Profession or occupationPoliticians Editors
Found inBunting, Brian Percy. Moses Kotane, South African revolutionary, 1998: t.p. (Moses Kotane) p. 7, etc. (Moses Mauane Kotane; b. 8-9-05; d. 1978; general-secretary, South African Communist Party, 1939-1978)
African American Studies Center, accessed February 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Kotane, Moses Mauane; political figure, communist, fighter against apartheid; born 09 August, 1905 in Tamposstad, South Africa; studied in Lenin School, Moscow (1931); joined the African National Congress (1928) and was elected to the national executive branch (1946); became a member of the African Bakers Union (1928); joined the South African Communist Party (1929) and its general secretary (1938); was editor of Umsebenzi newspaper; received a suspended sentence for participation in major Defiance Campaign civil disobedience movement against apartheid (1952); attended Third World summit at Bandung (1955); was charged with treason (1956); exiled in Tanzania (1963); died 19 May, 1978 in Moscow, Russia)
An African speaks, 1945: foreword (Moses M. Kotane, Cape Town) page 4 of cover (issued by the Communist Party of South Africa, 58, Burg Street, Cape Town)