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Cecil Williams (anti-apartheid activist)
Anti-apartheid activist (1909–1979)
This article is about the English-born South African activist. For the American pastor, see Cecil Williams (pastor).
Cecil Williams | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1909 |
| Died | 1979 |
Cecil Williams (1909–1979) was an English-South African theatre director and anti-apartheid activist.
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In 1998, a film about Williams, The Man Who Drove with Mandela, was released.[1]
Biography
Having previously taught English at a high school (including to the lawyer Sir Sydney Kentridge, also an anti-apartheid activist, who described Williams as "a very inspirational master" who "was always talking about politics"), leaving to become an actor,[2] Williams became a communist activist.
When the communists were debating how to respond to the government's demolition of the Sophiatown suburb of Johannesburg, Williams and Jack Hodgson were among those calling for the protesters to use direct force. He was a