5th Deputy President of the African National Congress
In office July 1991 – December 1994
President
Nelson Mandela
Preceded by
Nelson Mandela
Succeeded by
Thabo Mbeki
9th Secretary-General of the African National Congress
In office 1949–1954
President
James Moroka Albert Luthuli
Preceded by
James Arthur Calata
Succeeded by
Oliver Tambo
Personal details
Born
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu
(1912-05-18)18 May 1912 Ngcobo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
Died
5 May 2003(2003-05-05) (aged 90) Soweto, South Africa
Political party
African National Congress
Spouse
Albertina Sisulu
(m. 1944)
Children
Lindiwe Sisulu
Max Sisulu
Zwelakhe Sisulu
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (18 May 1912 – 5 May 2003) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC). Between terms as ANC Secretary-General (1949–1954) and ANC Deputy President (1991–1994), he was Accused No.2 in the Rivonia Trial and was incarcerated on Robben Island where he served more than 25 years' imprisonment for his anti-Apartheid revolutionary activism. He had a close partnership with Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela, with whom he played a key role in organising the 1952 Defiance Campaign and the establishment of the ANC Youth League and Umkhonto we Sizwe. He was also on the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party.[1][2]
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^Myburgh, James (31 January 2017). "The SACP's secret Moscow papers". Politicsweb. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
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of political unrest. Leading ANC officials such as Govan Mbeki and WalterSisulu were released from prison between 1987 and 1989, and in 1990 the ANC...
generation of leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, and WalterSisulu. In 1955, it signed the Freedom Charter, which – along with the subsequent...
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on charges of terrorism and treason, together with Nelson Mandela, WalterSisulu, Raymond Mhlaba, Ahmed Kathrada and other eminent ANC leaders, for their...
reigning nobleman from a junior branch of the Madiba clan of kings, and WalterSisulu. Abathembu is originally from Thembuland and throughout Eastern Cape...
Eastern Cape Technikon to become the WalterSisulu University, named after anti-apartheid activist WalterSisulu. Well-known people associated with the...
the African Congress Youth League (ANCYL), such as Nelson Mandela, WalterSisulu and Oliver Tambo, took power. The African National Congress (ANC) also...
formation of the ANC youth league started in 1943, in Orlando, Soweto at WalterSisulu's house by Anton Lembede, A.P. Mda, Jordan Ngubane, Nelson Mandela and...
convocation of his alma mater, which had by then been restructured as WalterSisulu University. In October 2022, following consultation with political parties...
botanical garden, Witwatersrand National Botanical Gardens (now renamed WalterSisulu National Botanical Garden), is located in Roodepoort. In 1884, brothers...
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