# Laloo Chiba

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'''Ishwarlal Laloo "Isu" Chiba''' (5 November 1930 – 8 December 2017)  was a South African politician and revolutionary. He was arrested and sentenced at the [Little Rivonia Trial](/source/Little_Rivonia_Trial) in 1964 with [Mac Maharaj](/source/Mac_Maharaj) and [Wilton Mkwayi](/source/Wilton_Mkwayi) to join [Nelson Mandela](/source/Nelson_Mandela), [Walter Sisulu](/source/Walter_Sisulu), [Govan Mbeki](/source/Govan_Mbeki) and other revolutionary prisoners on [Robben Island](/source/Robben_Island).<ref>{{cite book  | last =O'Malley  | first =Padraig  | title =Shades of difference. Mac Maharaj and the struggle for South Africa  | url =https://archive.org/details/shadesofdifferen00omal  | url-access =registration  | publisher =Viking  | date =2007  | location =New York  | pages =[https://archive.org/details/shadesofdifferen00omal/page/137 137–146]}}</ref>

==Early life==
He was born to a [Hindu](/source/Hindu) family in [Johannesburg](/source/Johannesburg). As a child he attended Bree Street Primary School and later Johannesburg Indian High School in [Fordsburg](/source/Fordsburg).<ref name="IOL01">{{Cite web|url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/gauteng-premier-mourns-compassionate-comrade-laloo-chiba-12329504|title=Gauteng premier mourns 'compassionate comrade' Laloo Chibadate|work=IOL News|language=en|date=8 December 2017|access-date=3 May 2019}}</ref> He married Luxmi in India on 5 May 1952.<ref name=IOL01/> In the early 1950s, Chiba became friends with [Ahmed Kathrada](/source/Ahmed_Kathrada), Herbie Pillay and Bobby and Tommy Vassen, all members of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC).<ref name=IOL01/>

== Revolutionary ==
Prior to the events in Sharpville, Chiba was an activist in the [Transvaal Indian Congress](/source/Transvaal_Indian_Congress) in the late 1950s and the [South African Communist Party](/source/South_African_Communist_Party) in 1960.<ref name="IOL01" /><ref name="Pres" /> After the [Sharpeville massacre](/source/Sharpeville_massacre) in 1960, he concluded that peaceful protest had failed and military action was necessary, so he joined the [ANC](/source/ANC)'s armed wing, [Umkhonto we Sizwe](/source/Umkhonto_we_Sizwe) (MK) in 1961.<ref name="Pres" />

He was a platoon commander in 1962 and a member of the group's High Command by 1963.<ref name="Pres" /> He was captured and tortured after a failed attempt to sabotage a railway line.<ref name="Pres" /> He was arrested on the 6 July 1964 for sabotage. He and the rest of the group were sentenced as members of a banned organisation and sent to Robben Island.<ref name="Pres" /> Released in 1982, he continued the work of the ANC as a member of the [United Democratic Front](/source/United_Democratic_Front_(South_Africa)).<ref name="Pres" /> In 1983, he became one of the vice-presidents of the Transvaal Indian Congress.<ref name="IOL01" /> He was rearrested in July 1985 and released without a trial in March 1986, after which he went into hiding so he could continue his work for the ANC.<ref name="IOL01" />

Upon the ANC's legalization in 1990, he became the president of its Lenasia branch.<ref name="IOL01" /> He was elected to South Africa's parliament in 1994 and 1999.<ref name="Pres" /> In 2004 he was named a member of the [Order of Luthuli](/source/Order_of_Luthuli) in silver.<ref name="Pres">{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/national-orders/recipient/laloo-chiba-1930|title=Laloo Chiba (1930 - )|last=|first=|date=|work=The Presidency: Republic of South Africa|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510091133/http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/national-orders/recipient/laloo-chiba-1930|archive-date=10 May 2019|access-date=3 May 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a board member of the [Ahmed Kathrada Foundation](/source/Ahmed_Kathrada_Foundation).<ref name="IOL01" />

==Death==
Chiba died on the 8 December 2017.<ref name="obit">{{cite news |last1=Gerber |first1=Jan |title=Struggle stalwart Laloo Chiba dies |url=https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/struggle-stalwart-laloo-chiba-dies-20171208 |access-date=2 May 2019 |publisher=News24 |date=8 December 2017}}</ref>  He is survived by wife Luxmi, three daughters - Gita, Kailash, and Yaswanti, seven grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.<ref name=IOL01/><ref name=obit/> He was laid to rest on the following day at [Avalon Cemetery](/source/Avalon_Cemetery).

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