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  Walter Sisulu hero file
In November Sisulu attends the meeting of ANC leaders that establishes Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), the military wing of the ANC.
Sisulu is rearrested on 11 July when police raid an ANC safe house in Rivonia, a fashionable suburb on the northern outskirts Johannesburg, discovering arms and equipment.
Sisulu's course on the history of the antiapartheid struggle is particularly popular, and he also continues his own education, completing a BA in art history and anthropology.
www.moreorless.au.com /heroes/sisulu.html   (3534 words)

  
  Walter Sisulu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (May 18, 1912 May 5, 2003) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC).
In 1992, Walter Sisulu was awarded Isitwalandwe Seaparankoe, the highest honour granted by the ANC, for his contribution to the liberation struggle in South Africa.
Walter Sisulu was given a "special official funeral" on 17th May 2003.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Sisulu   (457 words)

  
 WALTER SISULU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (18 mei 1912 - 5 mei 2003) was een Zuid-Afrikaans anti-Apartheids activist en leider van het ANC.
Sisulu, zoon van een zwarte (Xhosa) moeder en een blanke vader, groeide op in Ngcobo, Transkei.
Sisulu werd in de volgende jaren jaren meerdere malen gearresteerd, totdat in 1964 Sisulu, Mandela en 6 anderen tot levenslange gevangenisstraf worden veroordeeld op een aanklacht wegens poging tot gewelddadige staatsgreep en het proberen te stichten van een communistische staat.
www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/W/Walter_Sisulu   (243 words)

  
 South African Consulate General
One of Sisulu's earliest childhood memories was the trip to Cofimvaba, a village town, to be vaccinated during the influenza epidemic.
Walter Sisulu was the Treasurer of the Youth League and it was in his office that the members met to discuss strategy and tactics of the struggle.
Walter Sisulu was in the Joint Planning Council of the campaign, together with Dr. J.S. Moroka and J.B. Marks of ANC and Dr. Yusuf Dadoo and Yusuf Cachalia of SAIC.
www.southafrica-newyork.net /consulate/profiles/walter.htm   (3592 words)

  
 WALTER SISULU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Geboren wurde Walter Siulu in Qutubeni, einem Dorf in der Transkei, dem Gebiet der Xhosa.
Der Autodidakt Sisulu wurde zu einem angesehenen Immobilienmakler.
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu wurde als erster Südafrikaner mit einem besonderen offiziellen Staatsbegräbnis beigesetzt.
www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/W/Walter_Sisulu   (247 words)

  
 C h r o n o l o g y - W a l t e r M. S i s u l u   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu is born in Engcobo District in the Transkei, in the same year, the ANC was formed.
Sisulu is served a notification, in terms of section 9 of the Suppression of Communism Act, whereby Sisulu is prohibited, for a period of six months, from attending any meeting in the union.
Walter Sisulu, Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki, Ahmed Kathrada, Rusty Bernstein, Dennis Goldberg, James Kantor, Andrew Mlangeni, Elias Motsoaledi and Ramond Mhlaba (The Rivonia Trialist) are charged with sabotage and attempting to overthrow the state violently.
www.sahistory.org.za /pages/chronology/special-chrono/sisulu.htm   (4128 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | features Unassuming but giant pillar of the struggle
Walter Sisulu, who died Monday aged 90, was an unassuming but giant pillar of South Africa's bitter anti-apartheid war and respected as much as his long-time friend Nelson Mandela.
Sisulu was born on May 18, 1912 to a poor family in the small town of Engcobo in the rural Eastern Cape province, where Mandela was born six years later.
Sisulu's family was deferential towards whites, which the politician resented, perhaps because of an awareness of his mixed racial background and light complexion.
iafrica.com /news/features/233881.htm   (720 words)

  
 Anti-Apartheid Fighter Walter Sisulu Dies
Sisulu was the son of a poor family in the Xhosa homeland of Transkei.
Sisulu was convicted in March 1963 of furthering the aims of the banned ANC and encouraging fls to strike.
Sisulu and Mandela were convicted in 1964 of plotting anti-government sabotage in a highly publicized trial that showed the world the extent of South Africa's racial discrimination.
www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0506-06.htm   (1097 words)

  
 One of apartheid's great enemies - smh.com.au
Sisulu's special contribution was his persistence in converting the ANC from a narrow political agenda designed to serve the African population alone to one which envisaged full democratic rights for all races in South Africa.
Sisulu, born two years before the outbreak of World War I, was - despite his mixed parentage and pale complexion - raised in the tribal tradition by an uncle and underwent Xhosa initiation rites.
Sisulu was a key figure in the leadership of the "defiance campaign" from 1952, but his experience working with anti-apartheid leaders of other races and a tour of Eastern bloc countries, Israel and Britain appear to have ameliorated his fervent fl nationalism.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/05/07/1052280321111.html   (1228 words)

  
 Walter Sisulu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Sisulu was re-elected as ANC Secretary-General in the same month, and in 1953 spent five months touring China, the Soviet Union, Israel, Rumania and the United Kingdom.
Sisulu remained a defendant in the subsequent hearings, which ended in March 1961 when he, and all remaining accused, were finally acquitted.
Sisulu subsequently met with the external wing of the ANC in Lusaka and was asked to lead the ANC internally.
www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/sisulu,w.htm   (1143 words)

  
 Walter Sisulu: "A miracle that God had made"
Sisulu joined the ANC in 1940 and was among the group of radicals who formed the Youth League in 1943/44.
Sisulu was elected ANC secretary general in 1949, a post he held until 1954 when banning orders forced him to resign the position.
Sisulu was elected ANC deputy president at its national conference of July 1991 and remained in that position until after South Africa's first democratic election in 1994.
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 Walter Sisulu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
1928 wurde Walter Sisulu zunächst Milchjunge in Der Autodidakt Sisulu wurde zu einem angesehenen
Sisulu organisierte die ersten illegalen 1948 gewann die Nationale Partei überraschend die Wahlen und stellte umgehend ein Programm vor die Einführung einer totalen Rassentrennung vorsah.
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu wurde als erster mit einem besonderen offiziellen Staatsbegräbnis beigesetzt.
de.freeglossary.com /Walter_Sisulu   (210 words)

  
 Walter Sisulu - Definition, explanation
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (May 18, 1912 – May 5, 2003) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC).
In 1992, Walter Sisulu was awarded Isitwalandwe Seaparankoe, the highest honour granted by the ANC, for his contribution to the liberation struggle in South Africa.
Walter Sisulu was given a "special official funeral" on 17th May 2003.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/w/wa/walter_sisulu.php   (460 words)

  
 ZAR.co.za - Biography of Walter Sisulu
Sisulu and his elder sister Rosabella were brought up in Ngcobo, Transkei, by his mother, his uncle Dyantyi Hlakula and his grandparents.
The University of the Witwatersrand honoured Walter and Albertina Sisulu with the degree of Doctor of Law (honoris causa) at a graduation ceremony on 24 June 1999.
Walter Sisulu died in his sleep on 5 May 2003 with his wife at his side, two weeks short of his 91st birthday.
zar.co.za /sisulu.htm   (413 words)

  
 Father who cried freedom - World - www.theage.com.au   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Elinor Sisulu was studying in Amsterdam when she met Max, the exiled second son of jailed anti-apartheid activist Walter Sisulu.
In her biography, Walter and Albertina Sisulu in our Lifetime, she writes: "When I had entered Pollsmoor (prison) on that morning in March 1986, Walter Sisulu was to me a legendary leader, one of the great fathers of African nationalism who had been in prison since 1964, when I was just six years old.
It was Walter Sisulu who recruited Nelson Mandela to the cause, and in 1963 it was Sisulu - a self-educated man who had not finished high school - who was chosen to be the chief defence witness in their treason trial.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/11/05/1099547374244.html?from=storylhs   (1128 words)

  
 SABCnews.com - politics/government
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu was born out wedlock at Qutubeni in the Eastern Cape shortly after the birth of the ANC in 1912.
Walter Sisulu became the first person to put apartheid on the United Nations agenda and to lay the foundation for international solidarity.
Walter Sisulu was also part of the ANC team that met the National Party government on talks-about-talks at Groote Schuur in Cape Town.
www.sabcnews.com /politics/government/0,2172,58085,00.html   (1333 words)

  
 Walter Sisulu | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited
Sisulu was - with Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo - the third of the triumvirate whose commitment to non-racialism contributed more than any other individuals to the realisation of democracy in South Africa.
It was in 1941 that Sisulu, then the regional leader of the ANC in Johannesburg and living in Soweto, took in the young lodger with whose name history will always link him, Soon afterwards Sisulu persuaded the young Mandela to join the ANC.
Sisulu was released from Robben Island in late 1989 with other senior members of the ANC in a "trial run" for Mandela's release the following year.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,950374,00.html   (975 words)

  
 Hamba kahle, Walter Sisulu - SouthAfrica.info
Sisulu served on the planning council for the 1950 Defiance Campaign, led a group of passive resisters, and was arrested and briefly imprisoned before being banned under the Suppression of Communism Act.
Sisulu was re-elected ANC secretary-general in the same month, and in 1953 spent five months touring China, the Soviet Union, Israel, Rumania and the United Kingdom.
Sisulu subsequently met with the external wing of the ANC in Lusaka and was asked to lead the ANC internally.
www.southafrica.info /what_happening/news/features/sisulu-obituary.htm   (958 words)

  
 The World Today - Human rights activist and former political prisoner, Walter Sisulu, has died
Along with Nelson Mandela, former ANC leader Walter Sisulu dedicated his life to the fight against apartheid, and he was imprisoned by the white minority government for more than 26 years before his goal was realised.
WALTER SISULU: Our example has inspired millions of victims of racism around the world to stand up for their rights, for justice and human dignity.
Walter Sisulu was a father figure in the ANC.
www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2003/s848502.htm   (586 words)

  
 Walter Sisulu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (May 18, 1912 - May 5, 2003) was a South African anti- apartheid activist and member of the African NationalCongress (ANC).
In 1992, Walter Sisulu was awarded IsitwalandweSeaparankoe, the highest honour granted by the ANC, for his contribution to the liberation struggle in South Africa.
Sisulu's wifeand children were also active in the struggle against apartheid.
www.therfcc.org /walter-sisulu-39687.html   (418 words)

  
 African American Registry: A dedicated activist, Walter Sisulu!
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu was from the village of Qutubeni in the Engcobo district of Transkei, South Africa.
Sisulu, Mandela and other leaders of the ANC and Umkhonto stand trial for plotting to overthrow the government by violence and bring about a communist state.
In 1982 Sisulu was transferred to the maximum-security Pollsmoor Prison on the mainland.
www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2227/A_dedicated_activist_Walter_Sisulu   (698 words)

  
 Untitled Document
One of the greatest moments of Walter Sisulu’s contribution to South African political history was as Secretary-General of the ANC from 1949 to the banning of the organization in 1960.
One of the astonishing things about Walter Sisulu in the 1940s and the 1950s was his continuous metamorphosis and ideological development: from a ferocious fl nationalist in the mode of Anton Lembede to a progressive democrat in the tradition of Sefako Mapogo Makgatho.
These observations of Sisulu are a reflection of the political movement of the ANC toward a position that made possible the Congress of the People of 1955: forging of alliances with whites, Indians and Coloureds and their political organizations.
www.pitzer.edu /academics/faculty/masilela/nam/newafrre/writers/sisulu/sisuluS.htm   (1772 words)

  
 sundaytimes.co.za :: Home of the Sunday Times :: South Africa's best selling newspaper ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Walter Sisulu, one of the key ANC figures in the struggle against apartheid, died in Johannesburg on May 5 2003, just two weeks short of his 91st birthday.
The Walter Sisulu funeral, one of the biggest funerals of an ANC-stalwart since the 1994 elections, received wide media coverage locally and internationally.
Sisulu's heroic struggles will be warmly remembered, even in the US Dumisani Kumalo says Walter Sisulu galvanised American activists.
www.sundaytimes.co.za /specialreports/sisulu   (407 words)

  
 Walter Sisulu Summary
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (born 1912) was one of the most important leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa.
Walter Sisulu was born in 1912 in the South African "native reserve" territory of the Transkei (granted independence in 1976, but reincorporated into the Republic of South Africa in 1994), among the Xhosa-speaking section of the Southern Nguni people.
Sisulu's wife Albertina and son Zwelakhe were also harassed by South African authorities for their activism in support of political and economic freedom.
www.bookrags.com /Walter_Sisulu   (1430 words)

  
 allAfrica.com: South Africa: Anti-Apartheid Hero Walter Sisulu dies at 90 (Page 1 of 2)
Sisulu recruited Mandela into the African National Congress (ANC), the movement that fought for and won the liberation of fl South Africans from white minority rule.
Albertina Sisulu, too distraught to talk to the media on Tuesday, had earlier described to the national broadcaster, SABC, that she had found a father figure in Sisulu.
Mrs Sisulu said theirs had been a happy marriage, although her husband spent more than a quarter of a century in prison, away from their own five children and the four they adopted.
www.allafrica.com /stories/200305060280.html   (848 words)

  
 SADOCC - News - Walter Sisulu died   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Sisulu was among the group of radicals who formed the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League in 1943/44 and had been a central leader in the party since.
Sisulu remained active in the ANC following the end of his term as deputy president in December 1994.
According to a joint press conference given by the family of the deceased and the ANC, Walter Sisulu’s body will be buried with full state honours at the Creosus Cemetery in Industria near Westbury, a site chosen by the family, on Saturday, May 17.
www.sadocc.at /news/2003-145.shtml   (371 words)

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