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Paying tribute Ismail Coovadia, a true South African hero

This past weekend we lost one of our veterans, Ambassador Ismail Coovadia. This is Ambassador Welile Nhlapo’s tribute. ....

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Paying tribute to Ismail Coovadia, a true South African hero

Paying tribute to Ismail Coovadia, a true South African hero
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By Ambassador Welile Nhlapo
This past weekend we lost one of our veterans, Ambassador Ismail Coovadia. I first met him in London in January 1978. He met me at the Victoria station in London after I had arrived from Angola to work in the ANC office. I had just been appointed as Deputy Editor of Sechaba, the official publication of the ANC.
He drove me to the ANC office in Rathbone Street and I was received by comrades Reg September, Francis Meli, my editor, and other staff members.
Comrade Ismail immediately opened a bale and asked me to choose warm clothes since I was scantily dressed for London s extreme cold weather. ....

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Building "our" Commune: exiled Communards in Britain

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In 1870s London, at 67 Charlotte Street, there was a grocery shop called
le Bel Épicier, run by the Frenchman Victor Richard. Here, a London shopper could find French coffee, mustards, pâtes, cornichon and wines particularly those from Richard’s native Burgundy. As well as providing much-needed epicurean relief, Richard’s shop was “for many years a head centre, where political refugees, as they arrive from the Continent, go for advice and help in finding lodgings or work, and where, of course, the continental police agents also flock so as to spy upon the land.”
Richard was a prosperous and entrepreneurial grocer. He was also a member of the International Workingmen’s Association (IWMA), a socialist and a Communard; his relocation from Paris to London was the result of his militant defense of the Paris Commune of 1871. Arriving as a political refugee in London in June 1871, Richard became a very well connected and locally celebrated revolutiona ....

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