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Harrow Road renamed
Harrow Road in Johannesburg was recently renamed Joe Slovo Drive. City bosses said the renaming was in remembrance of the veteran freedom fighter who died from cancer in 1995. Slovo spent his early years in Yeoville. He was arrested and detained for two months during the treason trial of 1956. During his years in exile, he lived in the UK, Angola, Mozambique and Zambia, returning to South Africa in 1990. At the time of his death he was the Minister of Housing, the national chairman of the South African Communist Party and a member of the national executive committee of the ANC.