Joe Slovo
… 1953, the name changed to South African Communist Party (SACP)] from the 1940s. As an advocate at the Johannesburg … in political trials. He married Ruth First , daughter of SACP treasurer Julius First, in 1949. The following year, the … daughters. Slovo continued to work for the ANC and the SACP abroad and in 1977 moved to Maputo, Mozambique, where he …