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SLOVO, Joe

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Was targeted for killing by members of Security Branch Headquarters during June 1985. An informer was given a briefcase bomb intended for Mr Slovo, who was chief of staff of MK and a member of the ANC National Executive Committee and the SACP Central Committee, The informer, however, placed the briefcase at the entrance gate of the ANC’s offices in Lusaka, Zambia, where it exploded, causing no injuries or loss of life. One Security Branch operative was granted amnesty (AC/2000/083).

... on the search for her father?s killer. Turner?s film includes interviews with former BOSS agent Martin Dolinschek, Limpho and Lindiwe Hani and Joe Slovo and concludes with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Doctor Alex Boraine?s visit to the Women?s Monument in Bloemfontein, commemorating the women and ...
Joe Slovo is a member of the ANC national executive. His wife, Ruth First was assassinated in 1982. // The problem we face in this country is that here is an obvious tension between reparation and reconciliation, between retribution and reconciliation. At a moral level the answer is absolutely ...
What we had coming out of the system was basically political like a speech by Joe Slovo, Joe Slovo’s election as Secretary-General of the Communist Party, etcetera. But not the kind of information that one would term operational: how the Slovo family were kept under surveillance, the reports ...
... Katryn. // Williamson also admits killing leading ANC theoretician, Ruth First. Wife of Communist Party leader and later cabinet minister, Joe Slovo. First was blown up in the Mozambican capital of Maputo in August 1982. ...
... the remains of three MK soldiers. The men were all members of the elite MK Special Operations unit that fell under the command of the late Joe ...
... office he asked for a briefing on the intelligence files of the past regime. He requested documents on a number of individuals. In the case of Joe Slovo he found 2000 pages of ...
... in the early 1990s teenagers played a central role. This is the story of playful teenagers who became serious soldiers, the story of the Tambo Slovo self defence unit of ...
This is the Vaal Triangle, home of Eskom, Sasol and many other big industries. Also home to millions of people who work at these industries and their families. They live in grim townships such as Sebokeng, Sharpeville, Bophelong and Boipatong. For some, mostly men from KwaZulu-Natal, this is only a ...
This is the Vaal Triangle, home of Eskom, Sasol and many other big industries. Also home to millions of people who work at these industries and their families. They live in grim townships such as Sebokeng, Sharpeville, Bophelong and Boipatong. For some, mostly men from KwaZulu-Natal, this is only a ...
Its 1997, six years after the political conflict started in the East Rand. For the Tambo Slovo self defence unit those past years were the most frightening and hardest years of their lives, but the question remains, what about now?
 
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