Ronald Segal

Ronald Michael Segal (14 July 1932 – 23 February 2008) was a South African activist, writer and editor, founder of the anti-apartheid magazine Africa South and the Penguin African Library.[1]

Life

Ronald Segal was born on 14 July 1932, into a rich South African Jewish family. He was educated at Sea Point Boys' High School. After failing to gain entry to Oxford University, he then studied at Cape Town University and Trinity College, Cambridge. Returning to South Africa in 1956, Segal founded the anti-apartheid magazine Africa South. After the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre he went into exile with Oliver Tambo, and settled in England, where he continued his anti-apartheid political activity and pursued activity as a writer.[1]

After Segal was unbanned from South Africa, he visited the country several times, receiving a hero’s welcome on stage alongside Mandela, Tambo and Slovo in 1992. He died 23 February 2008.[1]

Works

  • Political Africa: a who’s who of personalities and parties, 1961
  • African profiles, 1962
  • Into Exile, 1963
  • Sanctions against South Africa, 1964
  • The anguish of India, 1965
  • The Race War: the worldwide conflict of races, 1966
  • America’s Receding Future
  • The Americans: a conflict of creed and reality, 1969
  • The Struggle Against History, 1971
  • Whose Jerusalem? The conflicts of Israel, 1973
  • Decline and Fall of the American Dollar, 1974
  • Southern Africa: New Politics of Revolution, 1976
  • Leon Trotsky: a biography, 1979
  • (with Michael Kidron) The State of the World Atlas, 1981
  • The Black diaspora, 1995
  • Islam's Black slaves: the other Black diaspora, 2001

References

  1. 1 2 3 Denis Herbstein, Ronald Segal, The Guardian, 26 February 2008.
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