Ronald Segal
Ronald Segal | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ronald Michael Segal 14 July 1932 South Africa |
| Died | 23 February 2008 (aged 75) |
| Education | Sea Point Boys' High School |
| Alma mater | Cape Town University; Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Occupation(s) | Activist, writer and editor |
Ronald Michael Segal (14 July 1932 – 23 February 2008) was a South African activist, writer and editor, founder of the anti-apartheid magazine Africa South and the Penguin African Library.[1]
Life[edit]
Ronald Segal was born on 14 July 1932, into a rich South African Jewish family. He was educated at Sea Point Boys' High School. After failing to gain entry to Oxford University, he studied at Cape Town University and then Trinity College, Cambridge.
Returning to South Africa in 1956, he founded the anti-apartheid magazine Africa South. After the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, he went into exile with Oliver Tambo, and settled in England, continuing his anti-apartheid political activity and pursuing activity as a writer.[1] Segal's best-known work is The State of the World Atlas (first edition, 1981), which he co-founded with Michael Kidron, another South African-born Jew, who shared most of his political views.[2]
After Segal was unbanned from South Africa, he visited the country several times, receiving a hero's welcome on stage alongside Mandela, Tambo and Slovo in 1992. Segal died on 23 February 2008.[1]
Works[edit]
- Tokolosh of the Townships, 1960 [3]
- Political Africa: A Who’s Who of Personalities and Parties, 1961
- African Profiles, 1962
- Into Exile, 1963
- Sanctions against South Africa, 1964
- The Anguish of India, 1965
- The Race War: The Worldwide Conflict of Races, 1966
- America’s Receding Future
- The Americans: A Conflict of Creed and Reality, 1969
- The Struggle Against History, 1971
- Whose Jerusalem? The Conflicts of Israel, 1973
- Decline and Fall of the American Dollar, 1974
- Southern Africa: New Politics of Revolution, 1976
- Leon Trotsky: a biography, 1979
- (with Michael Kidron) The State of the World Atlas, 1981
- The Black Diaspora, 1995
- Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora, 2001
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Herbstein, Denis (26 February 2008). "Obituary | Ronald Segal". The Guardian.
- ^ Kidron, Michael; Ronald Segal (1981). The State of the World Atlas. London: Pluto Press. p. 3.
- 1932 births
- 2008 deaths
- Alumni of Sea Point High School
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Jewish South African anti-apartheid activists
- South African editors
- South African emigrants to the United Kingdom
- South African magazine editors
- South African non-fiction writers
- White South African anti-apartheid activists