Nzo, Alfred Baphethuxolo

Nzo, Alfred Baphethuxolo
▪ 2001

      South African black nationalist and statesman (b. June 19, 1925, Benoni, S.Af.—d. Jan. 13, 2000, Johannesburg, S.Af.), served as secretary-general of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1969 to 1991 and as South Africa's first foreign minister in the postapartheid era. Active in the ANC from the early 1950s, he was arrested in 1963 for organizing antigovernment protests and was exiled the following year. Nzo represented the ANC in Egypt and India before being elected secretary-general and relocating the organization's headquarters to Tanzania and returned to South Africa after the ban on the ANC was lifted in 1990. He served as foreign minister under Pres. Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1999.

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