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class="mw-redirect" title="South African Department of Housing">Minister of Housing of South Africa</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />April 1994 – January 1995</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">New post</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">National Executive Committee member of the <a href="/wiki/African_National_Congress" title="African National Congress">African National Congress</a></th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">General Secretary of the <a href="/wiki/South_African_Communist_Party" title="South African Communist Party">South African Communist Party</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1984–1991</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chris_Hani" title="Chris Hani">Chris Hani</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Commander of <a href="/wiki/UMkhonto_we_Sizwe" class="mw-redirect" title="UMkhonto we Sizwe">uMkhonto we Sizwe</a></th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Tambo" title="Oliver Tambo">Oliver Tambo</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chris_Hani" title="Chris Hani">Chris Hani</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Yossel Mashel Slovo</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1926-05-23</span>)</span>23 May 1926<br /><a href="/wiki/Obeliai" title="Obeliai">Obeliai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Lithuania_(1918%E2%80%931940)" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Lithuania (1918–1940)">Lithuania</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">6 January 1995<span style="display:none">(1995-01-06)</span> (aged 68)<br /><a href="/wiki/Johannesburg" title="Johannesburg">Johannesburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/African_National_Congress" title="African National Congress">African National Congress</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/South_African_Communist_Party" title="South African Communist Party">South African Communist Party</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output 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crisis">Coloured vote constitutional crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_Treason_Trial" title="1956 Treason Trial">1956 Treason Trial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharpeville_massacre" title="Sharpeville massacre">Sharpeville massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rivonia_Trial" title="Rivonia Trial">Rivonia Trial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soweto_uprising" title="Soweto uprising">Soweto uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_Street,_Pretoria_bombing" title="Church Street, Pretoria bombing">Church Street, Pretoria bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaal_uprising" title="Vaal uprising">Vaal uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Sinton_Secondary_School#Trojan_Horse_Incident" title="Alexander Sinton Secondary School">Trojan Horse Incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Council_of_Churches#1988_bombing_of_Khotso_House" title="South African Council of Churches">Khotso House bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Town_peace_march" title="Cape Town peace march">Cape Town peace march</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Negotiations_to_end_apartheid_in_South_Africa" title="Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa">CODESA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Chris_Hani" title="Assassination of Chris Hani">Assassination of Chris Hani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_James_Church_massacre" title="Saint James Church massacre">Saint James Church massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Bophuthatswana_crisis" title="1994 Bophuthatswana crisis">1994 Bophuthatswana crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shell_House_massacre" title="Shell House massacre">Shell House massacre</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:lavender;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Category:Organisations_associated_with_apartheid" title="Category:Organisations associated with 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.navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Apartheid" title="Template:Apartheid"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Apartheid" title="Template talk:Apartheid"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Apartheid" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Apartheid"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Yossel Mashel Slovo</b> (23 May 1926 – 6 January 1995), commonly known as <b>Joe Slovo</b>, was a South African politician, and an opponent of the <a href="/wiki/Apartheid" title="Apartheid">apartheid</a> system. A <a href="/wiki/Marxist-Leninist" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist-Leninist">Marxist-Leninist</a>, he was a long-time leader and theorist in the <a href="/wiki/South_African_Communist_Party" title="South African Communist Party">South African Communist Party</a> (SACP), a leading member of the <a href="/wiki/African_National_Congress" title="African National Congress">African National Congress</a> (ANC), and a commander of the ANC's military wing <a href="/wiki/UMkhonto_we_Sizwe" class="mw-redirect" title="UMkhonto we Sizwe">uMkhonto we Sizwe</a> (MK). Slovo was a delegate to the multiracial <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_People_(1955)" title="Congress of the People (1955)">Congress of the People</a> of June 1955 which drew up the <a href="/wiki/Freedom_Charter" title="Freedom Charter">Freedom Charter</a>. He was imprisoned for six months in 1960, and emerged as a leader of uMkhonto we Sizwe the following year. He lived in exile from 1963 to 1990, conducting operations against the apartheid régime from the United Kingdom, <a href="/wiki/Angola" title="Angola">Angola</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mozambique" title="Mozambique">Mozambique</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Zambia" title="Zambia">Zambia</a>. In 1990, he returned to South Africa, and took part in the negotiations that ended apartheid. He became known for proposing the "sunset clauses" covering the 5 years following a democratic election, including guarantees and concessions to all sides,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his fierce <a href="/wiki/Non-racialism" title="Non-racialism">non-racialist</a> stance. After the elections of 1994, he became Minister for Housing in <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a>'s government. He died of <a href="/wiki/Cancer" title="Cancer">cancer</a> in 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joe_Slovo&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Slovo was born on 23 May 1926 in <a href="/wiki/Obeliai" title="Obeliai">Obeliai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a>, to a <a href="/wiki/Jewish" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish">Jewish</a> family that emigrated to the <a href="/wiki/Union_of_South_Africa" title="Union of South Africa">Union of South Africa</a> when he was eight. His father worked as a truck driver in <a href="/wiki/Johannesburg" title="Johannesburg">Johannesburg</a>. Although his family were religious, he became an <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a> who retained respect for "the positive aspects of <a href="/wiki/Jewish_culture" title="Jewish culture">Jewish culture</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-i-obit_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i-obit-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Slovo was educated at <a href="/wiki/King_Edward_VII_School,_Johannesburg" title="King Edward VII School, Johannesburg">King Edward VII School</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and left school in 1941 and found work as a dispatch clerk.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He joined the <a href="/wiki/National_Union_of_Distributive_Workers" title="National Union of Distributive Workers">National Union of Distributive Workers</a> and, as a <a href="/wiki/Shop_steward" class="mw-redirect" title="Shop steward">shop steward</a>, was involved in organising a strike. </p><p>Slovo joined the <a href="/wiki/South_African_Communist_Party" title="South African Communist Party">South African Communist Party</a> in 1942. Inspired by the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a>'s battles against the <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazis</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(WWII)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Front (WWII)">Eastern Front</a> of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, Slovo volunteered to fight in the war. He served as a Signaler in combat operations for the South African forces in North Africa and Italy, and on his return to South Africa he joined the <a href="/wiki/Torch_Commando" title="Torch Commando">Springbok Legion</a>, a multiracial radical ex-servicemen's organization.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between 1946 and 1950 he completed a law degree at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_the_Witswatersrand" class="mw-redirect" title="University of the Witswatersrand">University of the Witswatersrand</a> and was a student activist. He was in the same class as <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harry_Schwarz" title="Harry Schwarz">Harry Schwarz</a>. In 1949 he married <a href="/wiki/Ruth_First" title="Ruth First">Ruth First</a>, another prominent Jewish <a href="/wiki/Internal_resistance_to_South_African_apartheid" class="mw-redirect" title="Internal resistance to South African apartheid">anti-apartheid</a> activist and the daughter of SACP treasurer Julius First. They had three daughters, <a href="/wiki/Shawn_Slovo" title="Shawn Slovo">Shawn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gillian_Slovo" title="Gillian Slovo">Gillian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robyn_Slovo" title="Robyn Slovo">Robyn</a>. Ruth First was assassinated in 1982 in <a href="/wiki/Maputo" title="Maputo">Maputo</a>, by order of <a href="/wiki/Craig_Williamson" title="Craig Williamson">Craig Williamson</a>, a major in the <a href="/wiki/South_African_Police" title="South African Police">South African Police</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1950, the SACP was banned and both First and Slovo were listed as communists under the <a href="/wiki/Suppression_of_Communism_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Suppression of Communism Act">Suppression of Communism Act</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ban_(law)#Banned_persons_under_Apartheid" title="Ban (law)">could not be quoted or attend public gatherings</a> in South Africa. He became active in the <a href="/wiki/South_African_Congress_of_Democrats" title="South African Congress of Democrats">South African Congress of Democrats</a> (an ally of the ANC as part of the <a href="/wiki/Congress_Alliance" title="Congress Alliance">Congress Alliance</a>) and was a delegate to the June 1955 <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_People_(1955)" title="Congress of the People (1955)">Congress of the People</a> organised by the ANC and Indian, Coloured and white organisations at <a href="/wiki/Kliptown" title="Kliptown">Kliptown</a> near <a href="/wiki/Johannesburg" title="Johannesburg">Johannesburg</a>, that drew up the <a href="/wiki/Freedom_Charter" title="Freedom Charter">Freedom Charter</a>. He was arrested and detained for two months during the <a href="/wiki/Treason_Trial" class="mw-redirect" title="Treason Trial">Treason Trial</a> of 1956. Charges against him were dropped in 1958. He was later arrested for six months during the State of Emergency declared after the <a href="/wiki/Sharpeville_massacre" title="Sharpeville massacre">Sharpeville massacre</a> in 1960. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ruth_First_and_Joe_Slovo_(5021266886).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Ruth_First_and_Joe_Slovo_%285021266886%29.jpg/220px-Ruth_First_and_Joe_Slovo_%285021266886%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Ruth_First_and_Joe_Slovo_%285021266886%29.jpg/330px-Ruth_First_and_Joe_Slovo_%285021266886%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Ruth_First_and_Joe_Slovo_%285021266886%29.jpg/440px-Ruth_First_and_Joe_Slovo_%285021266886%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>Plaque in Camden Town</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1961, Slovo and Abongz Mbede emerged as two of the leaders of <a href="/wiki/UMkhonto_we_Sizwe" class="mw-redirect" title="UMkhonto we Sizwe">uMkhonto we Sizwe</a> (MK), the military wing of the ANC, formed in alliance between the ANC and the SACP. In 1963 he went into exile and lived in <a href="/wiki/UK" class="mw-redirect" title="UK">Britain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Angola" title="Angola">Angola</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mozambique" title="Mozambique">Mozambique</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zambia" title="Zambia">Zambia</a>. In his capacity as chief of staff of MK he codetermined its activities, like the 1983 <a href="/wiki/Church_Street_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="Church Street bombing">Church Street bombing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1982, Slovo's wife, <a href="/wiki/Ruth_First" title="Ruth First">Ruth First</a> was assassinated in Maputo, <a href="/wiki/Mozambique" title="Mozambique">Mozambique</a>, where the couple lived in exile. In 1984, Slovo, an ANC and SACP member, was forced to leave Mozambique in terms of the <a href="/wiki/Nkomati_Accord" title="Nkomati Accord">Nkomati Accord</a> between the Marxist <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Mozambique" title="People's Republic of Mozambique">People's Republic of Mozambique</a> and apartheid South Africa.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1984, he was elected <a href="/wiki/General_secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="General secretary">general secretary</a> of the SACP in <a href="/wiki/Lusaka" title="Lusaka">Lusaka</a>, Zambia, and in 1985, he became the first white member of the ANC's national executive. </p><p>Slovo was a leading theoretician in both the SACP and the ANC. In the 1970s he wrote the influential essay "South Africa: No Middle Road", which argued that the apartheid government would be unable to achieve stability, co-opt significant sections of the small but growing black middle class, or democratise: the only choice was between an insurrectionary overthrow of apartheid, centred on MK, or even greater repression.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the time the SACP's orthodox pro-Soviet and two-stage view of change in South Africa – "national democratic revolution" first, socialism later – was dominant in the ANC-led liberation movement. Slovo's 1988 "The South African Working Class and the National Democratic Revolution" defended the two-stage conception, insisting that "national democratic revolution" would "implement economic measures which go far beyond bourgeois-democracy" and so "erect a favourable framework for a socialist transformation but will not, in themselves, create, or necessarily lead to, socialism".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1989, he wrote "Has Socialism Failed?" which acknowledged the weaknesses of the socialist movement and the excesses of <a href="/wiki/Stalinism" title="Stalinism">Stalinism</a>, while at the same time rejecting attempts by the left to distance themselves from socialism. Slovo insisted on having a "justified confidence in the future of socialism and its inherent moral superiority", and pointing to "the failures of capitalism", although he now rejected the one-party state model.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 1990, after 27 years of exile, Slovo returned to the country<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to participate in the early "talks about talks" between the government and the ANC. Ailing, he stood down as SACP general secretary in 1991 and was given the titular position of SACP chairperson. Slovo was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Chris_Hani" title="Chris Hani">Chris Hani</a>, who was assassinated two years later by a white right-winger. Slovo was a long-demonised figure in white South African society, widely misrepresented as a <a href="/wiki/KGB" title="KGB">KGB</a> colonel or Russian secret agent, and attracted a great deal of press after his return.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1992, Slovo secured a major breakthrough in the <a href="/wiki/Negotiations_to_end_apartheid_in_South_Africa" title="Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa">negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa</a> by presenting the "sunset clauses" developed by the ANC/ SACP leadership: a coalition government for five years following democratic elections, guarantees for civil servants, including the homelands and armed forces, and an amnesty process. These were intended to head off right-wing coups and destabilisation. However, Slovo specifically rejected any compromise on full majority rule, and any agreement that "constitutionally prevented permanently" a new government "from effectively intervening to advance the process of redressing the racially accumulated imbalances in all spheres of life".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Slovo was a harsh critic of <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>, which he viewed as an <a href="/wiki/Israel_and_apartheid" class="mw-redirect" title="Israel and apartheid">apartheid state</a>, and has been described among "people who want to see justice in struggles wherever they are fought".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the elections of 1994, Slovo became Minister for housing in <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a>'s government, until his death in 1995 of <a href="/wiki/Cancer" title="Cancer">cancer</a>. His funeral was attended by the entire high command of the ANC, and by most of the highest officials in the country, including both Nelson Mandela and <a href="/wiki/Thabo_Mbeki" title="Thabo Mbeki">Thabo Mbeki</a>, and he was buried in <a href="/wiki/Avalon_Cemetery" title="Avalon Cemetery">Avalon Cemetery</a>, Soweto, which was unheard of for a white South African. 50,000 people, virtually all black, attended the event.<sup id="cite_ref-SAR_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAR-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Joe_Slovo_Grave,_Avalon_Cemetery,_Soweto.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Joe_Slovo_Grave%2C_Avalon_Cemetery%2C_Soweto.jpg/200px-Joe_Slovo_Grave%2C_Avalon_Cemetery%2C_Soweto.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="356" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Joe_Slovo_Grave%2C_Avalon_Cemetery%2C_Soweto.jpg/300px-Joe_Slovo_Grave%2C_Avalon_Cemetery%2C_Soweto.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Joe_Slovo_Grave%2C_Avalon_Cemetery%2C_Soweto.jpg/400px-Joe_Slovo_Grave%2C_Avalon_Cemetery%2C_Soweto.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2988" data-file-height="5312" /></a><figcaption>The grave of Joe Slovo in <a href="/wiki/Avalon_Cemetery" title="Avalon Cemetery">Avalon Cemetery</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soweto" title="Soweto">Soweto</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Civic_and_similar_tributes">Civic and similar tributes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joe_Slovo&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Civic and similar tributes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2004 Slovo was voted 47th in the <a href="/wiki/SABC3%27s_Great_South_Africans" class="mw-redirect" title="SABC3's Great South Africans">Top 100 Great South Africans</a>. Shack settlements built on land occupations in both <a href="/wiki/Durban" title="Durban">Durban</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cape_Town" title="Cape Town">Cape Town</a> were named after Joe Slovo by their founders. Harrow Road in Johannesburg and Field Street in Durban Central were renamed Joe Slovo Drive and Joe Slovo Street respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A newly constructed Residence building at <a href="/wiki/Rhodes_University" title="Rhodes University">Rhodes University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Grahamstown" class="mw-redirect" title="Grahamstown">Grahamstown</a>, South Africa, has been named "Joe Slovo" in honour of the man.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_South_African_Trade_Unions" title="Congress of South African Trade Unions">Congress of South African Trade Unions</a>, the largest union federation in South Africa, and an ally of the ANC and SACP, helps organise the annual Joe Slovo Memorial Lecture<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and normally issues a statement on the anniversary of his death.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Slovo was widely admired across southern Africa, leading Zimbabwean magazine, <i>Southern African Political and Economic Monthly</i> running a special issue on his death, and describing Slovo in an obituary as a "liberation war hero" and "African patriot" completely immersed in the struggle for black freedom.<sup id="cite_ref-SAR_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAR-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cinema_and_music">Cinema and music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joe_Slovo&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Cinema and music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Joe Slovo appears as a character in two films for which his daughter Shawn Slovo wrote the screenplay. In the award-winning 1988 movie <i><a href="/wiki/A_World_Apart_(1988_film)" title="A World Apart (1988 film)">A World Apart</a></i>, he is depicted as "Gus Roth" (played by <a href="/wiki/Jeroen_Krabb%C3%A9" title="Jeroen Krabbé">Jeroen Krabbé</a>). He is played by Malcolm Purkey in the 2006 film <i><a href="/wiki/Catch_A_Fire_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Catch A Fire (film)">Catch A Fire</a>.</i> </p><p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joe_Slovo&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180512200247/http://www.sacp.org.za/people/slovo/negotiations.html">"Negotiations: What room for compromise?"</a>. <i>www.sacp.org.za</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">25 January</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.sacp.org.za&rft.atitle=Negotiations%3A+What+room+for+compromise%3F&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sacp.org.za%2Fpeople%2Fslovo%2Fnegotiations.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJoe+Slovo" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/07/obituaries/joe-slovo-anti-apartheid-stalinist-dies-at-68.html">Joe Slovo, Anti-Apartheid Stalinist, Dies at 68</a>, NY Times, 1995-01-07.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-i-obit-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-i-obit_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-joe-slovo-1566935.html">"OBITUARY: Joe Slovo"</a></span>. <i>The Independent</i>. 7 January 1995. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220609/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-joe-slovo-1566935.html">Archived</a> from the original on 9 June 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Independent&rft.atitle=OBITUARY%3A+Joe+Slovo&rft.date=1995-01-07&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fpeople%2Fobituary-joe-slovo-1566935.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJoe+Slovo" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCobbett1995" class="citation journal cs1">Cobbett, William (March 1995). "Obituary: Joe Slovo: Mensch". <i><a href="/wiki/Review_of_African_Political_Economy" title="Review of African Political Economy">Review of African Political Economy</a></i>. <b>22</b> (63): 95–97. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F03056249508704103">10.1080/03056249508704103</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4006277">4006277</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Review+of+African+Political+Economy&rft.atitle=Obituary%3A+Joe+Slovo%3A+Mensch&rft.volume=22&rft.issue=63&rft.pages=95-97&rft.date=1995-03&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F03056249508704103&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F4006277%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Cobbett&rft.aufirst=William&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJoe+Slovo" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Slovo, Joe, and Nelson Mandela (Contributor). <i>Slovo: The Unfinished Autobiography of ANC Leader Joe Slovo</i>. 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