Joe Slovo 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, a leading member of the African National Congress, and a commander of the ANC’s military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe.
Slovo was born in Obeliai, Lithuania, to a Jewish family that emigrated to the Union of South Africa when he was eight. His father worked as a truck driver in Johannesburg.
Joe Slovo
BORN: 23 May 1926
HOME TOWN: Obeliai, Lithuania
SPOUSE: Ruth First (m. 1949; died 1982), Helena Dolny (m. 1987)
DIED: 6 January 1995 (aged 68)
PLACE OF DEATH: Johannesburg, South Africa
RESTING PLACE: Church Street Cemetery Pretoria, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
CHILDREN: Shawn Slovo, Gillian Slovo, Robyn Slovo
OCCUPATION: Politician
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