Laloo chiba biography of mahatma
Laloo Chiba (1930 - ) - Presidency.
Laloo chiba biography of mahatma
Laloo Chiba
Ishwarlal Laloo "Isu" Chiba (5 November 1930 – 8 December 2017) was a South African politician and revolutionary. He was arrested and sentenced at the Little Rivonia Trial in 1964 with Mac Maharaj and Wilton Mkwayi to join Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and other revolutionary prisoners on Robben Island.[1]
Early life
He was born to a Hindu family in Johannesburg.
As a child he attended Bree Street Primary School and later Johannesburg Indian High School in Fordsburg.[2] He married Luxmi in India on 5 May 1952.[2] In the early 1950s, Chiba became friends with Ahmed Kathrada, Herbie Pillay and Bobby and Tommy Vassen, all members of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC).[2]
Revolutionary
Prior to the events in Sharpville, Chiba was an activist in the Transvaal Indian Congress in the late 1950s and the South African Communist Party in 1960.[2][3] After the Sharpeville massacre in 1960,