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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985
Moloise, Benjamin
Biography
South Africa
Birth date: 1955-01-01
Birth location:
Alexandra,
South Africa
Death date: 1985-10-18
Benjamin Moloise, born in 1955, was a South African poet and political activist who was hanged by the South African apartheid government in 1985. He had been accused of murdering a police officer in 1982. He was a supporter of the then-forbidden African National Congress, which claimed Moloise had had nothing to do with the murder.
News Items (10)
- Black poet reprieved (1985-08-21) | Poet
- Pretoria judge delays hanging (1985-08-21) | Poet
- Black poet will hang on Friday after Botha rules out retrial (1985-10-16) | Poet
- Black poet defiant in face of death (1985-10-18) | Poet
- Violence Hits Central Johannesburg after Execution of Moloise (1985-10-19) | Poet
- Police hold 280 after apartheid sit-down (1985-10-20) | Mentioned Poet
- Crafty Words, Bloody Deeds (1985-10-20) | Mentioned Poet
- Repressing the Rebels (1985-10-20) | Mentioned Poet
- Thousands in riot after Pretoria poet is executed (1985-10-19) | Mentioned Poet
- The pressures mount on Pretoria (1985-08-20) |
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- Mauthner, Robert Percy (1)
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- Marsden, Eric (1)
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Moloise, BenjaminCreated by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities with funding from the Ford Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
