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- Robert Harold Lundie "Jock" Strachan (1 December 1925 – 7 February 2020) was a white South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. He flew for the South African Air Force during the Second World War, trained as an artist, then became Umkhonto we Sizwe's first explosives expert. He was imprisoned for sabotage, and after his release served another sentence for telling a journalist about poor prison conditions. He wrote two semi-autobiographical books, and completed the Comrades Marathon twice, winning a medal once. He married twice and had three children. (en)
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- Robert Harold Lundie Strachan (en)
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- An elderly but fit-looking white man with a beard, in mid-sentence (en)
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- Robert Harold Lundie Strachan (en)
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- Pretoria, South Africa (en)
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- A still from an interview with Strachan in 2010 (en)
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- (en)
- Make a Skyf, Man! (en)
- Way Up, Way Out (en)
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- Artist (en)
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- Writer (en)
- Anti-apartheid activist (en)
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- MK Chief of Explosives (en)
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- Strachan, quoted by Zoë Molver (en)
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- Jean Middleton (en)
- Maggie Strachan (en)
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- ...this was our job – devices and explosives. So I said, for God's sake, why me? And they said, no well, you were a bomber pilot in the war, you see, so you must know how to make bombs. I said, but for Christ's sake, Govan, we didn't make our own bombs. And they said, but you know about those things and I said, no, bombs were made in bloody factories, I don't know. So he said, anyway, you’re appointed. We did a good job, actually. (en)
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- Robert Harold Lundie "Jock" Strachan (1 December 1925 – 7 February 2020) was a white South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. He flew for the South African Air Force during the Second World War, trained as an artist, then became Umkhonto we Sizwe's first explosives expert. He was imprisoned for sabotage, and after his release served another sentence for telling a journalist about poor prison conditions. He wrote two semi-autobiographical books, and completed the Comrades Marathon twice, winning a medal once. He married twice and had three children. (en)
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