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Alex La Guma

Died in 1985

Alex La Guma was born on 20 February 1925 in District Six, a neighbourhood of Cape Town, the son of James La Guma, a trade union leader and communist. A worker at Metal Box, a member of the Communist Party from 1948, he took part in the preparation of the Freedom Charter, then wrote for the newspaper New Age. Charged in the treason trial opened in 1956, acquitted in 1961, he was afterwards detained, placed under house arrest and reduced to silence. Exiled to London in 1966, the first winner of the Lotus Prize, he represented the ANC in the Caribbean and died in Havana on 11 October 1985.

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