| LC control no. | no2019028265 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ebrahim, Ismail Ebrahim, 1937-2021 |
| Variant(s) | Ebrahim, Ebie, 1937-2021 |
| Associated country | South Africa |
| Associated place | Swaziland Angola Tanzania Zambia |
| Birth date | 1937-07-01 |
| Death date | 2021-12-06 |
| Place of birth | Durban (South Africa) |
| Affiliation | Natal Indian Congress Natal Indian Youth Congress African National Congress Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa) South Africa. Parliament (1994- ) South African Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs |
| Profession or occupation | Political activists Anti-apartheid activists Political prisoners Legislators |
| Found in | Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, 2017: title page (Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim) page 1 (known as "Ebie") page 3 (born on 1 July 1937 in Durban to parents of Indian origin; raised by his grandmother on a farm in Effingham, 50 km outside of Durban) page 4 (unable to enroll in school until age 10, at government-aided school, the Hindu Tamil Institute; when he was 12, in 1949, he and his grandmother moved to Greyville in Durban, where he became aware of racial discrimination) page 6 (became politically involved as a teenager; joined the Natal Indian Youth Congress in 1952; distributed pamphlets for the ANC) page 7 (in 1954 at age 17 he was elected chair of the Greyville branch of the NIC; a year later became a member of the Durban Committee tasked with mobilising for the Congress of the People, to be help in Kliptown 25-26 June 1955) page 7 (completed high school at Sastri College in 1959; enrolled in Salisbury Island University (designated for Indian students) in 1963) page 8 (after the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960 he continued with branch activities of the NIC, as ANC membership at the time was confined to Africans) page 10 (asked to join Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in December 1961, which he did despite his abhorrence of violence; as an MK commander, directed acts of sabotage at government installations and economic targets such as power lines and government offices; no civilians were to be attacked) pages 11-12 (arrested in August 1963, beaten and tortured; incarcerated for the next 16 years) page 15 (one of 19 charged under the Sabotage Act; on 27 February 1964 he was convicted of sabotage, sentenced to 15 years on Robben Island) page 22 (within a year of imprisonment, enrolled with UNISA for Bachelor of Arts degree, along with Mandela and others; majored in History and Psychology; completed Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Commerce by 1979) page 24 (released on 28 February 1979, immediately issued with a banning order, continued underground activities) page 26 (escaped to Lusaka in December 1980, spent 6 months training at ANC camps in Angola; sent to Tanzania) page 28 (went to Swaziland in 1982, as an undercover ANC operative) (abducted back to South Africa from Swaziland in December 1986) page 35 (detained and subjected to mental torture, sustained loud noises) pages 37-38 (charge with high treason in May 1987; sentenced to 20 years on Robben Island) page 40 (released from Robben Island on February 27, 1991) page 43 (sworn in as a Member of Parliament in 1994, made Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs; in 2009 he was appointed by President Jacob Zuma as Deputy Minister of International Relations, simultaneously chairperson of the ANC Sub-committee on International Relations) South China morning post, 6 Dec, 2021, viewed online May 9, 2022 (Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, a veteran of the fight against apartheid who spent years imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela, died on Monday [Dec. 6, 2021]) |
| Associated language | eng |
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