Joe Slovo [SEP] date of birth
Joe Slovo
Joe Slovo (born Yossel Mashel Slovo; 23 May 1926 – 6 January 1995) was a South African politician, and an opponent of the apartheid system. A Marxist-Leninist, he was a long-time leader and theorist in the South African Communist Party (SACP), a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a commander of the ANC's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK).
A South African citizen from a Jewish-Lithuanian family, Slovo was
of South Africa. Tiro was buried in Botswana, later reburied in his birth Village Dinokane Near Zeerust
- 1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist, killed in police custody
- 1982 - Ruth First, anti-apartheid scholar and wife of Communist party leader Joe Slovo, by pro-apartheid master spy and security policeman Craig Williamson
- 1985 - Vernon Nkadimeng, South African dissident
- 1988 - Dulcie September, head of the African National Congress in Paris assassinated in connection with her investigation into