Lionel Morrison

Born: 13 October 1935
Died: 31 October 2016
Updated: 21 Jul 2026

Summary

Journalist, Secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and an accused in the in 1956 Treason Trial. Joined the Pan Africanist Congress in exile and spent

Born in 1935, he became a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and in 1956 became one of the accused in the Treason Trial. After leaving South Africa, he joined the Pan Africanist Congress in exile and spent a period in China in the 1960s as a representative of the Afro-Asian Journalists' Association. After that he moved to Britain.

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South African History Online. (2011, February 17). Lionel Morrison. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ss/ref/B-0008650

South African History Online (2011) ' Lionel Morrison', South African History Online, 17 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ss/ref/B-0008650 (Accessed: 22 July 2026).

South African History Online, Lionel Morrison [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ss/ref/B-0008650, (accessed 22 July 2026).

" Lionel Morrison." South African History Online, 17 Feb. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ss/ref/B-0008650. Accessed 22 July 2026.

South African History Online. " Lionel Morrison." South African History Online. February 17, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ss/ref/B-0008650.