OBITUARY | Ebrahim Ebrahim: an unbreakable force against apartheid

The struggle hero and former deputy minister (1937-2021) is one of the only prisoners to have ever received a second sentence on Robben Island

12 December 2021 - 18:13 By Chris Barron

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, a former deputy minister of international relations who has died of cancer at his home in Johannesburg at the age of 84, was in the front line of the struggle against apartheid — and he paid a heavy price for it...

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