Wolfie Kodesh OLS (April 6, 1918 – October 18, 2002) was a South African Communist Party activist. Kodesh was born in the Transvaal mining town of Benoni. He became involved with the South African Communist Party in 1938, selling the leftwing newspaper, the Guardian.[1] During World War II, he fought in Italy and North Africa.[2] In 1961, he hosted Nelson Mandela in his apartment while Mandela was evading apartheid-era authorities. At the time, he was working as a journalist at New Age,[3] a leftist newspaper that would be shut down in 1962.
- ^ Gerald Shaw (13 November 2002). "Wolfie Kodesh". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
- ^ Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. London: Abacus (2013). p. 401.
- ^ Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. London: Abacus (2013). p. 401.
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