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This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.

Schoon, Marius

An anti-apartheid activist who served a prison term in South Africa, Schoon fled the country in 1976 and settled in Botswana where he continued working for the ANC. His wife and daughter were killed by a letter bomb.

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