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Mongane Wally Serote

Mongane Wally Serote was born on 8 May 1944 in Sophiatown and studied in Alexandra, then at Morris Isaacson High School in Soweto. A member of the ANC, he was arrested in 1969 under the Terrorism Act and spent nine months in solitary confinement without being charged. A Fulbright scholar, he obtained a fine arts degree at Columbia University, then went into exile in Botswana in 1977, where he took part in the Medu collective, and in London in 1986, for the cultural department of the ANC. Back in 1990, he was a member of parliament and headed the Freedom Park in Pretoria.

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