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From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net

Anti-apartheid activist and award-winning author Hugh Lewin dies
2019-01-17 13:20

South African author, journalist and anti-apartheid activist Hugh
Lewin died on Wednesday.

Lewin died at his home in Killarney, Johannesburg. He was 79 years
old.

He worked as a journalist at the Natal Witness, Drum and Golden City
Post. After being found guilty of sabotage in 1964, he was jailed for
seven years.

Upon his release in 1971, he left the country on a "permanent
departure permit", according to his biography on publisher Penguin
Random House's website.

He spent 10 years in exile in London, followed by 10 years in
Zimbabwe.

After his return to South Africa, he became director of the Institute
for the Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg. He also served as a
member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission committee on human
rights violations in Gauteng, in the 1990s.

He won the 2003 Olive Schreiner Prize for his prison memoir Bandiet
Out of Jail. While in prison, he secretly recorded his experiences and
those of his fellow inmates on the pages of his Bible. On his release,
these writings were published in London in 1974 and remained banned in
South Africa until it was published in 1989.

He also won the 2012 Alan Paton Award for Stones Against the Mirror, a
personal memoir. The judges described the book as a "beautifully
written and intensely personal story of friendship, betrayal and
struggle".

Source: https://t.co/SY8rWEmO7o

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