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Ben Turok is a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist. He was born on 26 June 1927 in the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia. He is a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and served as a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 2014. Turok was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and political science. He was a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) from 1951 to 1990. Turok was a leader of the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, and was arrested in 1963 for his involvement in the struggle against apartheid. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but was released in 1973. Turok was a member of the ANC's National Executive Committee from 1985 to 1990 and was elected to the ANC's National Working Committee in 1991. He was elected to the South African Parliament in 1994 and served as a Member of Parliament until 2014. Turok is the author of several books, including The Struggle for South Africa (1984), The ANC and the Liberation Struggle (1989), and The ANC and the Transformation of South Africa (1995). He is also the recipient of numerous awards, including the Order of Luthuli in Silver (2005) and the Order of the Baobab in Silver (2008).

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Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 26 June 1927
Birthday 26 June
Birthplace Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia
Date of death (2019-12-09) South Africa
Died Place Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality Russia

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Turok was the father of Fred Turok, Ivan Turok and Neil Turok, a cosmologist, and founder of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Muizenberg, South Africa. Turok was instrumental in helping draw up the Freedom Charter and also served time in jail under apartheid. Ben died on the morning of 9 December 2019. He was 92 years old.

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Ben Turok (26 June 1927 – 9 December 2019) was an anti-apartheid activist, Economics Professor and a South African member of parliament as a member of the African National Congress.

Turok was born to poor working-class Jewish parents in Byelorussia in 1927, who were radicalized by the secular Jewish socialist Bundist movement; his parents migrated to Libau, Latvia when his father became involved in the Jewish labor movement. Later, seeking safety, Turok's father moved the family to the then Union of South Africa in 1934. He graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1950. Returning to South Africa in 1953, he joined the South African Congress of Democrats and in 1955 became its secretary for the Cape western region, acting as a full-time organizer for the Congress of the People. He was the African representative on the Cape Provincial Council.