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   Anti-apartheid activist and award-winning author Hugh Lewin dies   
   2019-01-17 13:20   
      
   South African author, journalist and anti-apartheid activist Hugh   
   Lewin died on Wednesday.   
      
   Lewin died at his home in Killarney, Johannesburg. He was 79 years   
   old.   
      
   He worked as a journalist at the Natal Witness, Drum and Golden City   
   Post. After being found guilty of sabotage in 1964, he was jailed for   
   seven years.   
      
   Upon his release in 1971, he left the country on a "permanent   
   departure permit", according to his biography on publisher Penguin   
   Random House's website.   
      
   He spent 10 years in exile in London, followed by 10 years in   
   Zimbabwe.   
      
   After his return to South Africa, he became director of the Institute   
   for the Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg. He also served as a   
   member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission committee on human   
   rights violations in Gauteng, in the 1990s.   
      
   He won the 2003 Olive Schreiner Prize for his prison memoir Bandiet   
   Out of Jail. While in prison, he secretly recorded his experiences and   
   those of his fellow inmates on the pages of his Bible. On his release,   
   these writings were published in London in 1974 and remained banned in   
   South Africa until it was published in 1989.   
      
   He also won the 2012 Alan Paton Award for Stones Against the Mirror, a   
   personal memoir. The judges described the book as a "beautifully   
   written and intensely personal story of friendship, betrayal and   
   struggle".   
      
   Source: https://t.co/SY8rWEmO7o   
      
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