found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed February 18, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(La Guma, Alex; Justin Alexander La Guma; print journalist, labor organizer/leader, fiction writer, anti-apartheid fighter; born 1925 in Cape Town, South Africa; completed matriculation examinations as night student at Cape Technical College (1945); studied by correspondence at London School of Journalism (1965); joined the Plant Workers Union and Metal Box Company, the Young Communists League (1947) and the South African Communist Party (1948); became a reporter at The Guardian newspaper (later called New Age); became a leader of the South African Colored People's Organization (SACPO) (1954); was one of the 156 accused in Treason Trial (1956-1961); went with his family into exile in London (1966); worked as insurance clerk, journalist, and radio scriptwriter, London; was the ANC representative in the Caribbean, Havana, Cuba (1978-1985); became one of the most respected South African novelists in sub-Saharan Africa; died 1985 in Havana, Cuba)