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	Joe Slovo
		Joe Slovo was born in Lithuania in 1926 and moved to South Africa with his parents at the age nine.
		Slovo was one of the earliest members of the military wing of the ANC Umkhonto we Sizwe, and regularly attended meetings of its high command at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia.
		Slovo was chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe until April 1987, a member of the central committee of the SACP, and served on the revolutionary council of the ANC from 1969 until its dissolution in 1983.
	home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/people/slovo,j.htm (891 words)

	Joe SLOVO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1961, Slovo emerged as one of the leaders of Umkhonto we Sizwe.
		At the party's congress in South Africa in December 1991 Slovo was elected SACP chairperson; the late Chris Hani was elected general secretary.
		Slovo was a leading theoretician in both the party and the ANC.
	www.anc.org.za /people/slovo.html (655 words)

	Joe Slovo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slovo was elected general secretary of the SACP in 1984.
		Joe Slovo appears as a character (played by Malcolm Purkey) in the 2006 film Catch a Fire, for which Shawn Slovo wrote the screenplay.
		Joe Slovo – biographical sketch at the homepage of the ANC
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Slovo (519 words)

	Gillian Slovo
		Novelist Gillian Slovo was born in 1952 in South Africa, the daughter of Joe Slovo, leader of the South African Communist party, and Ruth First, a journalist who was murdered in 1982.
		Slovo's memories of exclusion from her parents's clandestine and covert engagements, and of her isolation from their systems of codes and disguises, suggest a childhood ironically positioned between love and neglect, and propelled too soon along the path from innocence to experience.
		Slovo admits to ambivalence in her feelings towards her mother, a woman whose ideological heroism on behalf of the wider South African family inevitably involved the abandoning of her own daughters.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth235 (1129 words)

	Foreign Correspondent - 1/04/97: Interview with Gillian Slovo
		Slovo: I think my mother was detested because she was not only joined with the ANC against apartheid, and a very active proponent and rather a brilliant woman, and a very attractive one which meant that she became a name in the west.
		Slovo: I don't think there was a touch of the Walter Mitty actually, because I think the way my father was painted was a product of the fact that nobody.....he was banned for very many years, for twenty-seven years, from being quoted.
		Slovo: Well, I don't know whether it answers you to say that he actually, in one stage of his career, was also the general secretary of the South African communist party.
	www.abc.net.au /foreign/stories/s400650.htm (3179 words)

	Mail&Guardian: Secrets of the Slovos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		What distinguished First and Joe Slovo was that, although each spent many months in prison, they had the luck or judgment to leave the country before the heaviest clampdown, and used their energies in exile to brilliant effect.
		As they grieve together, the president tells Gillian Slovo how his own grown-up daughter once flinched as he tried to hug her, bursting out: "You are the father to all our people, but you have never had the time to be a father to me." This, he said, was his greatest, perhaps his only, regret.
		Joe Slovo had warned her not to bother with the killer because meeting him might provide truth but no catharsis.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /mg/books/feb97/21feb-slovo.html (1144 words)

	Joe Slovo
		Slovo was not only a leading South African political figure, but he was respected globally within the ranks of the communist, progressive and liberation movements, for his sacrifices, writings and vision.
		Slovo’s life of struggle spans what can be regarded as the period of decisive shift to, and deepening of, militant mass and armed struggles in South Africa from the early 1940s through to the democratic breakthrough of 1994.
		Slovo was a combatant for the realisation of the ideals of the Freedom Charter.
	journals.aol.com /bloomingtoncp/news/entries/2005/01/06/joe-slovo/1491 (1749 words)

	SABCnews.com - politics/elections
		The communists have named their election drive after Joe Slovo, a former housing minister, who died nine years ago and is buried at the cemetery.
		Their songs and numbers grew as six busloads of party faithfuls from the ANC tripartite alliance arrived at Slovo's simple gravesite and when they saw Nelson Mandela, the former president, they immediately started singing one of the freedom songs that were sang during his 1994 election campaign.
		Mandela paid tribute to Slovo, whom he first met as a law student at Wits University in the 1940s, saying his comrade and friend was a special leader who had personified the inclusive and non-racial nature of the ANC's national struggle.
	www.sabcnews.com /politics/elections/0,2172,75648,00.html (455 words)

	Salon \| Daughter of the struggle
		Ruth First and Joe Slovo were South Africa's premier white activist couple, middle-class Jews who broke the South African color bar and risked their lives fighting the apartheid regime while partying until dawn.
		Joe Slovo, an intellectual lawyer, founded the African National Congress' guerrilla army with his friend Nelson Mandela when Gillian was not yet 10.
		She discovered that Joe had an illegitimate son, now 25, and that Ruth had had a long love affair while in hiding, when Joe was in exile and her small girls were mostly parentless at home.
	www.salon.com /june97/mothers/slovo970630.html (1829 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for slovo
		In 1185 he was defeated by the Cumans in an expedition that was immortalized in the epic Slovo o polku Igoreve (tr.
		South Africa's Joe Slovo dies; ANC leader had `warm jewish heart'
		Joe Slovo, South African Housing Minister, Dies at 68
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=slovo (252 words)

	Green Left - 120,000 honour Slovo
		Slovo said later that he made this decision after concluding that Marxism and Zionism were incompatible and, anyway, the struggle for justice in South Africa was his priority.
		Slovo was a founder member of the Congress of Democrats and represented it on the national consultative committee of the Congress Alliance, which drew up the 1955 Freedom Charter.
		Slovo was instrumental in the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the army built jointly by the ANC and SACP.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1995/172/12793 (1138 words)

	Nelson Mandela's Address at Funeral of Joe Slovo, 15 January 1995
		Joe Slovo was among the few white workers who understood their class interest and sought common cause with their class brother and sisters irrespective of race.
		Joe knew that the interests of the working class in our country were intimately bound up with those of the rest of the oppressed majority in pursuit of democracy and a better life.
		Joe appreciated that the Alliance between the ANC, the SACP and the progressive trade union movement was premised on concrete democratic and social tasks.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/mandela/1995/sp950115.html (1940 words)

	Dead Stalinists Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Catch a Fire was produced by Robyn Slovo, Joe's daughter, and was written by Shawn Slovo, another of Joe's daughters.
		The Slovo character, in fact, has about five lines of dialogue, and at first appearance a subtitle explains that he is "Head of Special Operations" for the ANC.
		Joe Slovo is shown as exulting, however, when told that a bomb will take out the refinery's water system, making it impossible to put out the fires, which indeed raged for a week.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=25238 (893 words)

	Writer puts family story on big screen
		Joe Slovo was high-level commander of the Mkhonto we Sizwe.
		Slovo and his wife, Ruth First, were members of the South African Communist Party and early members of the ANC.
		In the 90s, Joe Slovo helped negotiate the transition from apartheid to fl rule in South Africa and later served as housing minister in Nelson Mandela's government.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/1031catchfirewriter1031.html (791 words)

	::TAKE A SHOT'T LEFT ON JOE SLOVO DRIVE:: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Joe Slovo Drive forms the boundary between Berea and Yeoville, in the east of the city.
		Joe Slovo was a leader of both the working class and the national democratic movement led by the African National Congress (ANC)," Masondo added.
		Slovo was the national chairperson of the SACP when he died.
	www.joburg.org.za /2006/feb/feb10_joeslovo_drive.stm (703 words)

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		Joe was formerly head of the military wing (MK) of the African National Congress (ANC), and later a Cabinet member in Nelson Mandela’s first (post-apartheid) government.
		Joe told Shawn that if she ever wanted to write a story about the ANC’s armed struggle against apartheid, then she should tell the story of one of the movement’s heroes, Patrick Chamusso.
		Joe’s wife, and Shawn and Robyn’s mother, Ruth First was assassinated in 1982 by the apartheid regime when she opened a letter bomb.
	www.blacktalentnews.com /artman/publish/article_880.shtml (1606 words)

	Library - Online Library
		She has lived in Joe Slovo settlement for more than 10 years, and she was placed on a waiting list last February for new houses that were being built in Mt Moriah, 37 “upgrades” of one-room houses to replace the shacks that most residents are presently living in.
		Joe Slovo residents demanded that Gwela give them a copy of the community’s housing waiting list, so they might compare it to their own waiting list cards.
		Instead of being forced to move to another community, Joe Slovo residents fought for and won a feasibility study that said that the land they were living on was a decent place to build houses.
	www.ukzn.ac.za /ccs/default.asp?3,28,10,2452 (1563 words)

	AfricaFiles \| Review: Family matters
		Slovo's death was preceded, thirteen years earlier, by the murder of his first wife, Ruth First, victim of a government-dispatched bomb to her office at Edouardo Mondlane University in Maputo.
		Slovo wants to avoid the comfortable symmetry of concluding, as she had begun, with a description of a parent's funeral.
		Slovo's daughter emphasizes the naivete of the communists in the pre-Rivonia period, in the build-up to the repression which would be unleashed after Sharpeville.
	www.africafiles.org /article.asp?ID=3833 (1566 words)

	POLISH NATION LIBEL
		Slovo was born in a shtetl in Lithuania and grew up speaking Yiddish and studying the Talmud.
		Slovo is a dedicated Communist, a Marxist Leninist without morality of any kind, for whom only victory counts, whatever the human cost, whatever the bloodshed...
		Slovo, a Yiddish-speaking Lithuanian Jew, was Secretary General of the South African Communist Party and director of the military wing of the ANC, which perpetrated numerous terror bombings against white civilians.
	www.geocities.com /paprc/26hc.htm (1297 words)

	Green Left - Shedding light on apartheid's dark history
		Gillian Slovo, born the daughter of Communist parents Ruth First and Joe Slovo in 1952 in South Africa, always felt cut off from the secret world of her parents' underground politics and, as she relates in her memoir, the secrets of their private lives.
		Also a source of conflict, which Slovo hunts for with the single-minded fervour of a hog rooting for truffles, were Joe and Ruth's extramarital affairs -- Ruth's four-year affair with an architect and Joe's affair, which produced a son.
		Slovo's tracking down of a Security Branch spy in the ANC who was involved in Ruth's murder has real depth -- she finds in the state assassin only "displaced responsibility and empty justifications", with no trace of "regret, repentance, conscience".
	www.greenleft.org.au /1997/270/17185 (646 words)

	South Africa Partners -- South Africa -- Interview with Justice Albie Sachs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shawn and Robyn Slovo are the children of the well-known and respected South African anti-apartheid leaders, Joe Slovo and Ruth First.
		As white South Africans, Joe Slovo and Ruth First represented a minority of white South African activists working with the African National Congress in the struggle to bring justice to their country.
		Slovo is a name that opens all kinds of doors in South Africa, such as getting a visa for Patrick Chamusso who is a convicted terrorist and has poor health.
	www.sapartners.org /sa/CatchaFireinterview.php3 (1197 words)

	Joe Slovo hero file
		Slovo assists with the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), the ANC's military wing, and becomes one of its leaders.
		Slovo is again elected general secretary of the SACP.
		As a communist and supporter of social equality, Slovo was hated by the apartheid regime, which couldn't understand why a white man would work with fl South Africans to end their oppression.
	www.moreorless.au.com /heroes/slovo.html (2937 words)

	PC(USA) - Mission Connections - Letter
		Children from Joe Slovo with Feleng Mahamotse, a 5-year-old burn victim being cared for by Children of Fire.
		Joe Slovo is built on land owned by Transnet, the huge parastatal corporation that runs South Africa’s ports, pipelines, and railways.
		The morning at Joe Slovo was a sobering reminder of the difficult conditions in which so many South Africans continue to live.
	www.pcusa.org /missionconnections/letters/tiltond/tiltond_0610.htm (836 words)

	Joe Slovo Youth Development Forum
		Joe Slovo Youth Development Forum was formed two years ago to address the development needs of the community there but it is battling to be effective for lack of a base from which to operate and communication and operational resources.
		The forum is a non-profit organisation and wants to create an enabling environment where all young people will be able to strengthen their capacity and engage themselves in activities that will improve their development and quality of life.
		The forum is acting in co-operation with the community leadership in Joe Slovo Park and under the umbrella of the Blaauwberg Municipal Development Forum.
	members.tripod.com /cab94/joeslovo.htm (220 words)

	:: HARROW ROAD BECOMES JOE SLOVO DRIVE :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The road is to be renamed Joe Slovo Drive in remembrance of the veteran freedom fighter, during an official unveiling ceremony on 10 February.
		The South African Communist Party (SACP), of which Slovo was a member, put forward the request on the tenth anniversary of the anti-apartheid stalwart's death.
		Members of the Slovo family have indicated that they will be present, but they have not yet confirmed their attendance, Silimela says.
	www.joburg.org.za /2006/jan/jan24_joslovodr.stm (672 words)

	People in South African History
		Joe Slovo was a very important character in the battle for Human Rights in South Africa.
		Comrade Joe, as he was often referred to, "...committed himself to one major goal--the removal of the racist regime and power for the people" (Mandela vii).
		Comrade Joe rose up in the ranks to become Chief of Staff of the People's Army, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), which in Zulu means "Spear of the Nation," a military wing formed by ANC to lead sabotage campaigns against the government that he fought against ("Slovo" 1).
	www.eou.edu /~nknowles/fall2000/sapeop.html (7212 words)

	Freedom Fighter Joe Slovo Dies
		JOHANNESBURG -- Joe Slovo, who was at once South Africa's most beloved and most demonized white anti-apartheid freedom fighter, has died at his home in Johannesburg after a four-year battle with bone marrow cancer.
		Slovo was the head of South Africa's Communist Party and the former chief of staff of the African National Congress's guerrilla army.
		He was a key strategist in the negotiations that led to the end of the apartheid system of white domination, and since last May he had served as housing minister of the country's first democratically elected government.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/1995/01/10/022.html (191 words)

	International Reporting Project - Fellows' Stories
		JOE SLOVO, South Africa — As in many small American towns, the school in Joe Slovo is the heart — and hope — of the community.
		Settlements such as Joe Slovo lack even basic social services crucial to the development of a healthy nation.
		Simphiwe Vubela, 24, has lived in Joe Slovo since 1996 with his mother, father and six siblings.
	www.pewfellowships.org /stories/southafrica/southafrica_school.htm (488 words)

	Salon \| My family, my country
		Gillian Slovo reflects on her relationship with her mother, Ruth First, one of South Africa's most prominent white anti-apartheid leaders.
		Gillian Slovo was born in South Africa in 1952 and raised in England from the age of 12.
		She is the author of eight books, one of which, "Ties of Blood," was published in the United States in 1989.
	www.salon.com /june97/mothers/excerpt970630.html (608 words)

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