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First Wednesday with Peter Hain |
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| Description: | We are honoured to welcome Peter Hain who is a British Labour Party politician, he has been a  Member of Parliament for Neath since 1991, and served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown Peter spent most of his childhood in Pretoria, South Africa, at a time when the repressive Apartheid regime was tightening its grip on South African society. Outraged by the daily discrimination and abuses they saw, his family found themselves becoming more and more involved in the opposition to Apartheid. Both parents were jailed, banned and the family forced into exile in Britain in 1966. His parents’ struggle made a lasting impression on Peter and he too took up the fight against injustice. Following his arrival in Britain he became involved in anti-Apartheid protests, disrupting an international Davies Cup Match against Britain and then became chairman of the Stop The Seventy Tour campaign which successfully used non violent direct action to isolate white South Africa from international sport. Peter obtained a BSc (Econ) at Queen Mary College, University of London and an MPhil at University of Sussex. He is the author or editor of sixteen books - the latest a biography of Nelson Mandela - and has written widely in pamphlets and articles on Labour policy and socialist ideology. He joined the Labour Party in 1977 and entered the House of Commons in a by-election in 1991 as Labour MP for Neath, a former mining community. He served in Government for twelve year including Europe Minister, Leader of the Commons and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for Wales and for Northern Ireland. As always, the speaker address will be followed by delicious canapes and the finest South African wines. If you are an SACC member, please login with your user name and password and select the correct events type in the top left hand corner. |
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| Date: | 6:30pm to 9:30pm, Wed 4th Sep 2013 | |||
| Venue: | Deloitte | |||
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