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Patel, Dipak
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1964 -
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Patel joined the African National Congress in 1980 and was recruited into uMkhonto we Sizwe in 1981. He was a member of South African Communist Party. He did his military training both in ANgola and in South Africa. He was employed as a chemical engineer by South African Breweries until 1989, when he was fully taken up with his political and military activities for the African National Congress or uMkhonto we Sizwe. He was part of the Durban Regional Political Military Committee under the leadership of Pravin Gordhan and became involved in Operation Vula. He was arrested in 1990 along with other Vula operatives.
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ZA-COM-07816
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Modified on 2020-05-19, by Phetlhu, Ogone