From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   I cut the crosspost as I don't read the other groups, and alt.politics   
   is overwhelmed with political trolling. C'mon. Don't do that.   
      
   Steve Hayes  wrote:   
      
   >Dave Hemson (1945-2025) Obituary   
      
   >by Crispin Hemson   
      
   >. . .   
      
   >A year later, the apartheid government put him and other labour   
   >leaders under house arrest and other restrictions. He went into exile   
   >in 1975 and completed a doctorate at the University of Warwick that   
   >focused on the nature of labour control on the Durban docks, a thesis   
   >that had a major influence on subsequent studies of South African   
   >society. His independent stance, with three other anti-apartheid   
   >activists, led to his expulsion from the ANC; he formed with them the   
   >MWT of the ANC, which linked with Militant in the UK.   
      
   What does this mean? Was he advocating violent overthrow of   
   post-colonial governments in South Africa or Zimbabwe, or not?   
      
   >He taught for a   
   >time at the University of Dar-es-Salaam, and in May 1982 married   
   >Patricia (Trish) Struthers in Harare, Zimbabwe, where he worked as a   
   >teacher and where his first son, Jesse, was born in 1983.   
      
   >In March 1985, David was detained without charges at Chikurubi Maximum   
   >Security Prison in Harare together with Darcy du Toit. On 18 April   
   >1985 he was released and deported with his family to the UK, on   
   >accusations that he was plotting to overthrow the government of Robert   
   >Mugabe.   
      
   What does this mean? Advocating for free and fair elections would have   
   been an anti-Mugabe plot. Or was it violent overthrow of Mugabe?   
      
   >. . .   
      
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