Obituary: Walter Hain, architect-turned-activist who backed sports boycott against SA

23 October 2016 - 02:00
By Chris Barron

Walter Hain, who has died in Wales at the age of 91, was an anti-apartheid activist who was raided, jailed, banned and effectively driven into exile in 1966. He was a friend of fellow Liberal Party member John Harris, who planted a bomb at the Johannesburg railway station in 1964 which killed a woman and horribly disfigured her granddaughter.

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