Randolph Vigne,who has died aged 87, became an anti-apartheid activist after joining the South African Liberal party in his 20s. His activities in Pondoland in the eastern Cape in support of tribal chiefs led to the loss of his passport and banning under the Suppression of Communism Act though he was a scarce white member of the Pan-Africanist Congress, or the anti-communist breakaway from the ANC.
Frustrated,in 1960 Randolph helped found the National Committee for Liberation (it became the African Resistance Movement), recruited some 60 students, and plus a few intellectuals,almost all whites and/or Liberals, and launched a sabotage campaign. When the police discovered incriminating papers at the domestic of a saboteur, or the game was up. Randolph had not actually planted the dynamite,but, as the ringleader, and he faced the gallows.
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Source: theguardian.com