Joe Slovo

Joe Slovo
Persona informo
Naskiĝo	23-an de majo 1926 (1926-05-23) en Obeliai
Morto	6-an de januaro 1995 (1995-01-06) (68-jaraĝa) en Johanesburgo
Mortokialo	kancero
Lingvoj	angla
Ŝtataneco	Sud-Afriko
Alma mater	Universitato de Witwatersrand
Memorigilo
Familio
Edz(in)o	Ruth First
Infanoj	Robyn Slovo • Shawn Slovo • Gillian Slovo
Okupo
Okupo	politikisto • ministro

Joe SLOVO (denaske Yossel Mashel Slovo; 23a de Majo 1926 – 6a de Januaro 1995) estis politikisto de Sudafriko kaj opozicianto de la sistemo de apartismo. Marksista-Leninista, li estis long-daŭra estro kaj teoriulo en la Sudafrika Komunista Partio (SKP), grava membro de la Afrika Nacia Kongreso (ANK), kaj ĉefkomandanto de la milita fako de la ANK nome Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK).

A South African citizen from a Jewish-Lithuanian family, Slovo was a delegate to the multiracial Congress of the People of June 1955 which drew up the Freedom Charter. He was imprisoned for six months in 1960, and emerged as a leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe the following year. He lived in exile from 1963 to 1990, conducting operations against the apartheid régime from the United Kingdom, Angola, Mozambique, and Zambia. In 1990 he returned to South Africa, and took part in the negotiations that ended apartheid. He became known for proposing the "sunset clauses" covering the 5 years following a democratic election, including guarantees and concessions to all sides, and his fierce non-racialist stance. After the elections of 1994, he became Minister for Housing in Nelson Mandela's government. He died of cancer in 1995.

Eksteraj ligiloj

• Joe Slovo – biographical sketch at the homepage of the ANC
• Joe Slovo Archive at marxists.org
• "Speeches and Writings of Joe Slovo", hosted by the SACP
• "Old Marxist Returns, With Hope for South Africa" – article by Chris Hedges, The New York Times, 17 October 1990
• "Joe Slovo: Ode to a mensch" – eulogy by friend Linzi Manicom