![]() ![]() The ANC unsuccessfully pressured the Labour Party to sack Plaut. Plaut resisted the wish by the African National Congress (ANC) to be considered the "sole legitimate representative" of South Africans, since other major resistance groups, including the Pan Africanist Congress were recognised as legitimate by the Labour Party. He held senior roles in the party, connecting it with the internal resistance to the South African apartheid system. Plaut joined National Union of South African Students while studying. He obtained an honours degree in industrial relations from the University of Witwatersrand, and in 1977 finished a master of arts degree at the University of Warwick. ![]() He obtained a degree in social science from the University of Cape Town, where he also particpiated in the sit-in during the Mafeje affair in 1968. Plaut attended Cape Town High School and worked in his father's shop in Cape Town from 1969 to 1973. Martin Plaut was born in May 1950 in Cape Town, South Africa, to a furniture designer father and an artist mother. As of 2019, Plaut was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London. He worked as a BBC News journalist from 1984 to 2012 and is a member of Chatham House. ![]() ![]() Martin Plaut (born 1950) is a journalist and academic specialising in conflicts in Africa, especially the Horn of Africa. ![]()
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