biography
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| lived:
| (1925–82)
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| biography:
| Radical opponent of apartheid, as activist, journalist, writer, and academic, born in Johannesburg, NE South Africa. She joined the Communist Party as a student, and worked for various left-wing newspapers and magazines (1946–60). In 1949 she married Joe Slovo; both were arrested and charged with treason in 1956. In 1964 she left South Africa, and subsequently taught at universities in England and Mozambique. In 1982 she was assassinated by a parcel bomb in her office at Maputo, Mozambique. |
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