South Africa: Anti-apartheid veteran Ebrahim dies aged 84
Al JazeeraThe largely unsung figure in the fight against apartheid had joined the struggle in his early teens. Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, a veteran of the fight against apartheid who spent years imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela, has died aged 84, South Africa’s ruling party announced. A largely unsung figure in the chronicles of apartheid, Ebrahim joined the struggle against white-minority rule in his early teens, becoming an ANC youth activist in 1952. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent resistance campaigns in India, Ebrahim attended speeches by Albert Luthuli, the ANC leader who in 1960 became the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize. ‘Assaulted, starved in prison’ He was arrested in 1963 and imprisoned on Robben Island, where he studied alongside Mandela and shared a cell with former President Jacob Zuma.
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