Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim OLG was a South African anti-apartheid activist of Indian origin who was a member of the African National Congress's armed wing uMkhonto we Sizwe.
16 Facts About Ebrahim Ebrahim
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Ebrahim Ebrahim was tried in the Pietermaritzburg sabotage trials of 1963 and was sentenced to a 15-year imprisonment at the Robben Island Maximum Security Prison.
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Ebrahim Ebrahim's father was from Gujarat and traveled to South Africa in 1933, while his mother was born in South Africa.
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Ebrahim Ebrahim's father took the surname Ebrahim from the family with whom he had traveled to South Africa.
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Ebrahim Ebrahim then joined a government funded school The Hindu Tamil Institute.
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Ebrahim Ebrahim was an admirer of Mahatma Gandhi's passive resistance movement, and attended rallies where ANC leader Albert Luthuli spoke.
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Ebrahim Ebrahim went on to become a member of the ANC armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe in 1961 and was a member of the organization that carried out sabotage across the country.
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Ebrahim Ebrahim was arrested in 1963 under the Sabotage act.
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Ebrahim Ebrahim was tried in the Pietermaritzburg Sabotage Trial that included 18 other activists and was sentenced to a 15-year imprisonment at the Robben Island Maximum Security Prison.
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Ebrahim Ebrahim was kidnapped from Swaziland by South African apartheid agents and sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment, again in Robben Island.
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Ebrahim Ebrahim met the Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in 2001 in the West Bank during this time.
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Ebrahim Ebrahim was appointed the deputy foreign minister in 2009 and served in the position for six years between 2009 and 2014.
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Ebrahim Ebrahim served as the member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress for over 26 years between 1991 and 2017.
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Ebrahim Ebrahim had another daughter from his earlier relationship with an American academic Julia Wells.
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Ebrahim Ebrahim was a fan of Soviet realist writer Nikolai Ostrovsky's works.
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Ebrahim Ebrahim was provided a state funeral by the Gauteng province at the Westpark Cemetery.