Chairperson of the Joint Committee on Ethics and Members' Interest
In office 8 February 2011 – 6 May 2014
Serving with Buoang Mashile
Preceded by
Luwellyn Landers
Succeeded by
Amos Masondo
Member of the National Assembly
In office 1994 – 6 May 2014
Personal details
Born
Benjamin Turok
(1927-06-26)26 June 1927 Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia
Died
9 December 2019(2019-12-09) (aged 92) Cape Town, South Africa
Citizenship
South Africa
Political party
African National Congress
Other political affiliations
Congress of Democrats South African Communist Party
Spouse
Mary Turok
Children
3, including Neil Turok
Benjamin Turok (26 June 1927 – 9 December 2019) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and economics professor. He represented the African National Congress in the post-apartheid National Assembly from 1994 to 2014.[1]
^"Parliament deeply saddened by the passing of former MP Prof Ben Turok". Parliament of South Africa. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
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lack of evidence, goes into exile to co-ordinate the ANC from abroad. BenTurok, academic, was a member of the South African Parliament, retired c 2014...
President of South Africa by secret ballot. Having been nominated by ANC MP BenTurok, he received 269 votes, against 50 votes for the opposition candidate...
he served alongside the National Assembly's Luwellyn Landers and later BenTurok. In the 2014 general election, Mashile returned to the National Assembly...
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the rise of "business unionism". In 2007, Golding, in an interview with BenTurok, said that he viewed himself as a "social entrepreneur". He explained...
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involving communism. The group of Jews included Joe Slovo, Ruth First, BenTurok, Leon Levy and Lionel Bernstein. They escaped conviction only to face...
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urged the ruling ANC to vote against the Bill. Two members of the ANC, BenTurok and Gloria Borman abstained from voting on the bill urging 'further consideration'...
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meals prepared by Pahad frequently attended by anti-apartheid activists. BenTurok, for example, calling Pahad "the best curry cook in the [anti-apartheid]...
National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party, recruited by BenTurok, in 1953. He became the Secretary of the South African Railways and Harbours...
that he would be inconspicuous on railway property. Until he was banned BenTurok worked closely with him and took up cases using his position as a member...
approach by security police to get him to bear witness against comrades. BenTurok, a previous co-accused of Mini's in the 1956 Treason Trial, was serving...
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