Reginald September

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Reginald Kenneth "Reggie" September (born June 13, 1923 in Wynberg , Cape Province ; † November 23, 2013 in Cape Town ) was a South African politician and opponent of apartheid . He was a senior member of the South African Colored People's Organization (SACPO) and the African National Congress (ANC).

Life

September's parents were workers. He attended Trafalgar High School in Cape Town and was subsequently trained in the shoe industry. In 1938 he joined the National Liberation League , which was headed by Cissie Gool and James La Guma . He became a senior union member, was involved in the Franchise Action Council (FRAC) in 1951 and spent two years abroad. After his return, he became the first general secretary of SACPO in December 1953. He was one of the defendants in the Treason Trial from 1956 , all of whom were acquitted a few years later. During the state of emergency in 1960, he was detained without charge for five months. In 1961 he was imprisoned again because he had organized the Anti-Republic Stay-at-Home Campaign after the 1960 referendum (about "Anti-Republican Boycott Campaign"). Since he was also banned , he had to resign as General Secretary of the SACPO.

In 1963 he was instructed by the ANC and the South African Communist Party (SACP) to leave the country. He came to London via Tanzania and was there from 1963 to 1978 Chief Representative (about: "Supreme Representative") of the ANC for "the United Kingdom and Western Europe". There he co-founded the British anti-apartheid movement in 1969. In 1978 he was a member of the Revolutionary Council of the ANC in Zambia's Lusaka . In 1985, at the ANC's Kabwe Conference, he was one of the first three non-blacks to join the ANC's National Executive Committee . In 1990 he returned to South Africa as a member of an ANC delegation that entered into negotiations with the government that led to the Groote-Schuur Agreement and ultimately to the abolition of apartheid. From 1994 to 2004 he was a member of the National Assembly for the ANC . In 2013 he worked as chairman of the Zanethemba Community Trust and a member of several union leaderships.

September was married. He had five children.

Honors

September 2004 was awarded the Order of Luthuli in silver.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Reginald September
  2. ↑ a b c d e biography at sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on August 12, 2013
  3. ↑ a b c September at who is who South Africa (English; archive version)
  4. ↑ a b c Appreciation for the award of the Orders of Luthuli at thepresidency.gov.za (English), accessed on July 27, 2018
personal data
SURNAME September, Reginald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES September, Reginald Kenneth (full name); September, Reggie (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African politician and opponent of apartheid
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Wynberg , Cape Province
DATE OF DEATH 23rd November 2013
Place of death Cape Town