biography
pronunciation:
[kotahnay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1905–78)
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| biography:
| South African politician, born in the N Rustenburg district, South Africa. The child of a peasant family, and largely self-taught, in the late 1920s he joined both the African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party of South Africa. After study at the Lenin School in Moscow, he served as General Secretary of the Communist Party for 40 years, both while it was a legal organization (the Party was banned in 1950) and also in its underground period after 1953. In 1963 he went into exile, and served on the national executive of the ANC in addition to his Party duties. |
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