Comrade Eric Singh, 1932-2014, trade unionist, ANC and SACP member, producer of Sechaba Image by Karin Singh Memorial for Comrade Eric Singh, today The Johannesburg memorial service and burial of anti-apartheid struggle veteran Comrade Eric Singh, who died last month, will take place today, Saturday 29 March Eric Ushaber Singh was born in Durban in 1932. After leaving school he worked as a machinist in the garment industry in Durban and served as a shop steward. He joined the Natal Indian Youth Congress in 1951, and the South African Communist Party. He served as the General Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress from 1956 and into the 1960s, and was in and out of detention under the laws of the apartheid regime. While awaiting trial he was advised to leave the country, and did so in 1965. In 1967 he was deployed to the German Democratic Republic, where he learnt to be a printer and became manager of the ANC's Sechaba magazine. In 1979 he was deployed to Dar-es-Salaam for four years, serving in ANC structures and assisting SACTU and Radio Freedom. He returned to Berlin in 1983. His friend Detlev Reichel wrote: "The GDR became his second home. He was a principled friend of the socialist German state without being blinkered dogmatically. East Germany's active solidarity with the liberation struggle in South Africa resulted in his principled relationship with that country. Solidarity is not a one-way road." Details of Memorial and Interment: . Date: 29 March 2014 (Saturday) . Time: 11h00 to 14h30 . Venue: Huguenot Primary School <https://www.google.co.za/maps/@-26.19812,27.992304,3a,75y,180h,76.63t/data= !3m4!1e1!3m2!1s1g7T3mMW7mSDfQaO9YBT7Q!2e0?hl=en> , 33 St Jerome Avenue, Crosby, Johannesburg, and West Park Cemetery -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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