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Rosie29 | 21:24 Sun 17th Mar 2024 | News
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This probably isn't the right section but I don't know where the best place is.

I'm trying to remember the name of a political activist /writer probably born in S Africa but spent a lot of time in UK.  Probably dead now - mainly active in 70s 80s 90s - left wing , anti apartheid  may have run for political office in this country.  Might have spent time in prison due to his campaigning but I'm not sure.

Any thoughts ? Mods please move this if in wrong place.  Thank you.

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Peter Hain?

Peter Hain?

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Thanks very much both.  Yes that's the one x

Certainly not dead now. In fact he is Baron Hain of Neath, having received a Life Peerage in 2015.

"...may have run for political office in this country."

A little bit more than that, He was MP for Neath from 1991 to 2015 and during that time held a number of ministerial and shadow ministerial posts. 

"Might have spent time in prison due to his campaigning..."

Never spent time in prison but in 1976 he was famously tried a the Old Bailey for a bank robbery. He was acquitted:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/9/newsid_2523000/2523609.stm

//Hain is a member of the Steering Committee of the Constitution Reform Group//

I wonder if they will recommend abolishing the House of Lords🙄

sarf efrican MI5 was BOSS, and they had a Hain look a like rob a bank

But hain successfully pleaded it  wasnt him, and even the frame-up was pleaded in court

He also did the Cricket tour sabotage - pouring weed killer onto pitches and so on

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