Tony Hall in 1973 in Nairobi, Kenya The day after the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, the white South African journalist Tony Hall , who has died aged 71, and his wife Eve joined the ANC. For the next three years their home was a closet venue for the organisation, before in 1964, facing jail as members of a banned organisation, they went into exile with their three sons. It would be 26 years before they returned home. Tony became news and features editor of the Nation in Nairobi, and, after drafting the manifesto for the opposition Kenya People's Union, was again expelled. In Tanzania, he was training editor of the Standard newspaper, and did voluntary work for the ANC, Frelimo of Mozambique and the MPLA of Angola. He had been born in Pretoria, to parents who ran a hotel. His grandfather, Arthur Lewis Hall, was a pioneering geologist, while his aunt Connie was South Africa's first woman lawyer. He was educated at Pretoria boys' high school and in the late 1950s read
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