EDITORIAL: The last of a generation of SA freedom fighters with integrity
He was never shy to raise uncomfortable questions – a quality increasingly rare in a party that values obsequiousness above critical thought
12 December 2019 - 05:00
He drafted the economic clause of the 1955 Freedom Charter which essentially calls for the country’s wealth to be "transferred to the people", helped form Umkhonto weSizwe in 1960 and was jailed for sabotage, before skipping the country and going on to edit the ANC’s mouthpiece, Sechaba.
Yet Ben Turok, who died this week aged 92, was no apparatchik...
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