South African freedom fighter. Born Johannesburg. Married Slovo in 1949; the writer Gillian Slovo is their daughter. Killed by a parcel bomb addressed to her in Mozambique where she was living in exile.
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Charles Hoy Fort
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Ruy Barbosa
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Punch magazine
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Reynolds News
Radical newspaper founded by George W. M. Reynolds. Influenced the young George Lansbury.
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Corporal Charles Train, VC
Charles William Train. Born 58 Chatterton Road, Finsbury Park. Served in the London Regiment. On 8 December 1917 at Ein Kerem, near Jerusalem, in Ottoman controlled Palestine, when his company was...
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