Joe Slovo
… the death of Moses Mabhida in 1986, Slovo was appointed general secretary of the SACP. Early in 1987, the SACP asked … MK position as a result of the pressure of his duties as general secretary of the SACP. As a result he vacated the … in February 1990, and Slovo was elected as the party's general secretary, but in 1991, he retired from this position …