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	Raymond Mhlaba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Raymond Mhlaba (February 12, 1920-February 20, 2005) was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress (ANC).
		In 2004 Mhlaba was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer, and in December doctors discharged him from a private clinic saying there was nothing they could do for him.
		Mhlaba is survived by his wife, three sons and five daughters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raymond_Mhlaba (583 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Raymond Mhlaba
		Raymond Mhlaba, who died on February 20 aged 85, was an influential member of the African National Congress leadership; he was sentenced, along with Nelson Mandela, to life imprisonment at Robben Island prison, having been convicted in the notorious Rivonia treason trial in the 1960s.
		Raymond Mhlaba was born to a poor peasant family in the Fort Beaufort region of the Eastern Cape on February 12 1920.
		Mhlaba was unable to follow Mao's advice as the South African Communist Party had aligned itself to the doctrines of the movement in the Soviet Union.
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	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Raymond Mhlaba
		Raymond Mhlaba, who has died aged 85, dedicated his formidable talents to the struggle against apartheid.
		As chairman of the Port Elizabeth ANC branch, Mhlaba was the first person to be arrested in the 1952 non-violent campaign against the apartheid laws.
		Released in October 1989, Mhlaba was elected, in 1991, to the ANC national executive and the SACP central committee.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1424789,00.html?gusrc=rss (552 words)

	Raymond Mhlaba; ANC veteran and longtime Mandela friend; 85 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Raymond Mhlaba, an African National Congress veteran who was sentenced with Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment in 1964 for trying to overthrow South Africa's apartheid regime, has died at age 85, the government said.
		Mhlaba was arrested in a sweep by security forces on the ANC's underground headquarters at a farm in Rivonia in northern Johannesburg in 1963.
		Mhlaba and six others – including Govan Mbeki, the father of the current president – stood trial for sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050311/news_1m11mhlaba.html (334 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news ANC veteran Raymond Mhlaba dies
		Mhlaba was district secretary of the Communist Party from 1946 until it was prohibited in 1950 under the Suppression of Communism Act.
		Mhlaba was instead appointed High Commissioner to Uganda and Rwanda, retiring from the post in 2001, the same year his memoirs were published.
		Mhlaba received the ANC's Isitwalandwe Award in 1992 for his role in the liberation struggle, and the Moses Kotama Award in 2002 for his contribution to the SACP.
	www.iafrica.com /news/sa/596095.htm (816 words)

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		Mhlaba was an outstanding revolutionary, a selfless and dedicated combatant, and a much respected and admired leader of the people.
		Mhlaba was one of the leaders arrested during the Rivonia raid in 1963, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
		Mhlaba was awarded the ANC's highest accolade, Isithwalande Seaparankoe, in 1992 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the struggle of the South African people.
	www.mandelametro.gov.za /default.aspx?page=31165 (416 words)

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		Mhlaba joined the ANC in 1944, and from 1947 to 1953 was Port Elizabeth branch chairman.
		Mhlaba was the first ANC leader to be arrested in the 1952 Defiance Campaign.
		Banned under the Suppression of Communism Act, Mhlaba was nevertheless elected to the Cape executive committee of the ANC in 1954, and continued with his political activities.
	www.mandelametro.gov.za /default.aspx?page=31164 (446 words)

	Mbeki salutes Raymond Mhlaba - SouthAfrica.info
		Mhlaba, an African National Congress (ANC) veteran and Rivonia trialist, was incarcerated for 25 years for his political activities.
		Mhlaba was arrested during the Defiance Campaign at the New Brighton railway station in Port Elizabeth in 1952 and banned under the Suppression of Communism Act.
		Mhlaba was transferred to Pollsmoor prison in 1986, where he stayed until his release in 1989 to join the ANC special executive committee that negotiated with the National Party government on the country's democratic future.
	www.southafrica.info /what_happening/news/raymond-mhlaba.htm (351 words)

	The Herald Online News
		STRUGGLE “Captain” Raymond Mhlaba was given a heroic send-off yesterday by the country’s leading political figures, who joined more than 10 000 mourners at a State funeral in Port Elizabeth.
		Mandela, 86, whom Mhlaba had referred to as being like his elder brother, said Ndobe (Mhlaba’s clan name) was a man of few words, but acted decisively when the “moment of action arrived”.
		Mandela said Mhlaba was “a man of the people”, who served South Africa’s young democracy in different key roles, including as premier and as the head of the country’s mission to the Great Lakes region.
	www.theherald.co.za /herald/2005/02/28/news/n01_28022005.htm (567 words)

	ANC veteran and Mandela friend Raymond Mhlaba dies - World - www.smh.com.au
		Raymond Mhlaba, one of the men sentenced with Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment in 1964 for trying to overthrow the apartheid government, has died, government officials said.
		"Raymond Mhlaba was a stalwart of the liberation struggle whose life enriched all South Africans," said South African President Thabo Mbeki in a statement.
		Mhlaba, known as Oom Ray, was arrested with Mandela in a sweep by security forces on a farm in Rivonia in northern Johannesburg in 1964.
	www.smh.com.au /news/World/Mandelas-friend-Raymond-Mhlaba-dies/2005/02/22/1109046923373.html?oneclick=true (360 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Raymond Mhlaba, at 85; South African rights activist
		CAPE TOWN -- Raymond Mhlaba, an African National Congress veteran who was sentenced with Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment in 1964 for trying to overthrow South Africa's apartheid regime, has died at age 85, the government said Monday.
		Mhlaba was born in an Eastern Cape village.
		Mhlaba, and six others stood trial for sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/02/25/raymond_mhlaba_at_85_south_african_rights_activist?mode=PF (331 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Africa / S. African activist Raymond Mhlaba dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Raymond Mhlaba, an African National Congress veteran who was sentenced with Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment in 1964 for trying to overthrow South Africa's apartheid regime, has died at age 85, the government said Monday.
		CAPE TOWN, South Africa --Raymond Mhlaba, an African National Congress veteran who was sentenced with Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment in 1964 for trying to overthrow South Africa's apartheid regime, has died at age 85, the government said Monday.
		Mhlaba would be given an official state funeral, Mbeki said, although no date was announced.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2005/02/21/s_african_activist_raymond_mhlaba_dies?mode=PF (429 words)

	Raymond Mhlaba Honoured By South African Goverment
		Raymond Mhlaba, a staunch trade unionist and member of the South African Communist Party since 1943, became the first ANC leader to be arrested in the 1952 defiance campaign for leading supporters through a ‘Whites Only’ entrance to a railway station in Port Elizabeth.
		Mhlaba was a founding member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the ANC and the SACP, and was appointed Commander in Chief of the unit in October 1962 following a period of military training in Mao’s China.
		Mhlaba was a strong supporter of Mandela’s efforts to negotiate with the South African government when this became possible in 1980s, and in 1982 was moved to Pollsmoor Prison with Mandela, Sisulu and Andrew Mlangeni, who had also stood trial at Rivonia.
	exzibit.net /viewarticle.php?articleID=63 (667 words)

	Media release 2001: Deputy President Zuma to launch Oom Ray's memoirs. 10 April 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Deputy President, Jacob Zuma is scheduled to be the guest of honour at the launching of Raymond Mhlaba's memoirs at 8 a.m.
		"Raymond Mhlaba is one of the most committed comrades I had the honour to know and work with in the many years of the liberation struggle.
		"Raymond Mhlaba exemplifies the kind of leader that survived all the injustices of white supremacy.
	www.hsrc.ac.za /media/2001/4/20010410.html (525 words)

	Raymond Mhlaba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Raymond Mhlaba was born in Mazoka village at Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape.
		He was arrested during the Defiance Campaign in 1952 at the New Brighton railway station in Port Elizabeth and banned under the Suppression of Communism Act.
		Mhlaba also received the ANC medal Isithwalandwe and served in 1997 as South African High Commissioner to Uganda.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/mhlaba-r.htm (264 words)

	book1
		Raymond Mhlaba's Personal Memoirs, edited by Thembeka Mufamadi from her extended interviews with Mhlaba, is a welcome addition to this literature.
		Mhlaba recounts his experiences as an activist in what he affectionately calls the "mixed bag" of Port Elizabeth in the 1940s and '50s.
		Politically, Mhlaba was a product of Port Elizabeth in the '40s and '50s, and of the long incarceration of more than a quarter of a century that followed.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2001/06/16/features/BOOK1.HTM (683 words)

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	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Leaders say goodbye to 'Oom Ray'
		"Raymond Mhlaba was one of the most committed comrades I had the honour to know and work with in my many years in the liberation struggle," Mandela told mourners at the Vista Campus of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
		Mhlaba was a courageous freedom fighter and peacemaker who would be remembered as one of the icons of the struggle, Mandela said.
		"...thanks to the leadership, the determination, the perseverance, the courage, the inspiration, and the confidence in the people conveyed by Raymond Mhlaba and his generation of titans, we were able to overcome all obstacles until we gained our liberty," Mbeki said in a speech prepared for delivery at the funeral.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/648395.htm (593 words)

	Mhlaba to get official funeral
		Mhlaba was a Rivonia trialist who was imprisoned in 1963 for "resisting the injustices perpetrated by the government of the time".
		Last year, Mhlaba was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer, and in December doctors discharged him from a private clinic, saying there was nothing more they could do for him.
		Mbeki said Mhlaba was a stalwart of the liberation struggle and whose life enriched all South Africans.
	www.landbou.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1665510,00.html (361 words)

	Speech of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Funeral of Raymond Mhlaba, Port Elizabeth
		Raymond Mhlaba, Ndobe, devoted his entire adult life, covering 60 years, to the service of the people and the cause of freedom.
		But thanks to the leadership, the determination, the perseverance, the courage, the inspiration, and the confidence in the people conveyed by Raymond Mhlaba and his generation of titans, we were able to overcome all obstacles until we gained our liberty.
		To define those leaders for ourselves, we must once more refer back to the example set by Raymond Mhlaba and the titans of his generation, who taught us what it means to serve the people, and what it means to be a cadre of our liberation movement.
	www.dfa.gov.za /docs/speeches/2005/mbek0228.htm (1841 words)

	Star - Oom Ray a Titan of the freedom struggle
		"Raymond Mhlaba was one of the most committed comrades I had the honour to know and work with in my many years in the liberation struggle," Mandela told mourners at the Vista Campus of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth yesterday.
		Mhlaba (85), a former Eastern Cape premier and ambassador to Uganda, died of cancer last weekend.
		He saw Mhlaba as a courageous freedom fighter and peacemaker who would be remembered as one of the icons of the struggle.
	www.thestar.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=129&fArticleId=2427973 (534 words)

	History News Network
		South African liberation hero Raymond Mhlaba dies on the same night that the Godfather of Gonzo journalism commits suicide.
		Raymond Mhlaba, of whom most of you have never heard, was one of the Rivonia Eight and an African National Congress loyalist whose name will inevitably fall well below those of Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and even Thabo Mbeki when people talk about the transition from apartheid to nonracial democracy.
		In a statement, Thabo Mbeki wrote of Mhlaba: "He endured a generation of incarceration under the apartheid regime, together with fellow heroes of our nation and he managed to play a valued public role as our democracy took root.
	www.hnn.us /blogs/entries/10405.html (626 words)

	ABC News: S. African Activist Raymond Mhlaba Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Raymond Mhlaba, African National Congress Veteran and Longtime Friend of Nelson Mandela, Dies at 85
		CAPE TOWN, South Africa Feb 21, 2005 —; Raymond Mhlaba, an African National Congress veteran who was sentenced with Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment in 1964 for trying to overthrow South Africa's apartheid regime, has died at age 85, the government said Monday.
		Mandela, Mhlaba and six others including Govan Mbeki, the father of the current president stood trial for sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=519314 (409 words)

	Anti-apartheid fighter Mhlaba dies / World / Home - Morning Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		AFRICAN National Congress veteran Raymond Mhlaba, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for trying to overthrow South Africa's apartheid regime, has died, the government said yesterday.
		"Raymond Mhlaba was a stalwart of the liberation struggle whose life enriched all South Africans," President Thabo Mbeki said.
		Mr Mhlaba was born in a small village in the Eastern Cape province.
	www.morningstaronline.co.uk /index2.php/ex/layout/set/print/content/view/full/10269 (270 words)

	CityVision-WC
		In whatever they did before their incarceration and even after their release was motivated by a sense of patriotism and commitment to the cause of the liberation of the African masses.
		In testimony to the above, in his tribute to Raymond Mhlaba, Nelson Mandela described him as one of the most committed comrades he had the honour to know and work with in his many years in the liberation struggle.
		In Mhlaba, Mbeki noted that just like his fellow comrades, he was ready to carry out any mission he was given and to pay any necessary price to advance the cause of freedom.
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	Encyclopedia: Rivonia Trial
		Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada (sometimes nicknamed Kathy) (21 August 1929 -) is a South African politician and was an anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner.
		Arthur Goldreich was an abstract painter born in 1929 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a key figure in the anti-apartheid movement.
		Goldberg, Bernstein, Hepple and Goldreich were Caucasian Jews, Kathrada was Indian, and Sisulu, Mbeki, Motsoaledi and Mhlaba were fl.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rivonia-Trial (1769 words)

	Encyclopedia: Raymond Mhlaba
		The African National Congress (ANC) is a center-left political party, and has been South Africas governing party (in a coalition) since the establishment of majority rule in May 1994.
		Image File history File links Raymond Mhlaba ANC photo From ANC website at http://www.
		President Nelson Mandela, 1995-1999 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, OM OC, (born 18 July 1918) was the first democratically-elected President of South Africa.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Raymond-Mhlaba (1391 words)

	iemotional
		Most of those arrested in 1963 during a police raid on what was then a remote small-holding northwest of the city, were given lengthy jail terms and some were only released after the unbanning of political organisations in 1990 -- a move that paved the way for the first democratic elections in 1994.
		Five trialists who first recollected their bitter-sweet memories and reminisced about their experiences 38 years ago to the media were Lionel Bernstein, Raymond Mhlaba, Dennis Goldberg, Andrew Mlangeni and Arthur Goldreich.
		Raymond Mhlaba, a former Eastern Cape premier and ambassador to Uganda, said the reunion was a "sign of their promise to come back here".
	www.dispatch.co.za /2001/12/17/southafrica/IEMOTION.HTM (610 words)

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