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Ben Turok (Benjamin Turok) was born on 26 June, 1927 in Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia, is a South African activist and politician (1927–2019). Discover Ben Turok's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

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Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 26 June 1927
Birthday 26 June
Birthplace Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia
Date of death 9 December, 2019
Died Place Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality Russia

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Children 3, including Neil Turok

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1927

Benjamin Turok (26 June 1927 – 9 December 2019) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and economics professor.

Turok was born to poor working-class Jewish parents in Byelorussia in 1927, who were radicalized by the secular Jewish socialist Bundist movement; his parents migrated to Libau, Latvia when his father became involved in the Jewish labor movement.

1934

Later, seeking safety, Turok's father moved the family to the then Union of South Africa in 1934.

Jewish identification in his household was mostly cultural and his parents were involved in Yiddish theatre: "There were play readings, poetry evenings, political debates and a host of similar events all focusing on the Jewish way of life".

His parents were not religious and he did not have a bar mitzvah, however he was obliged to attend Hebrew school.

1950

Turok graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1950.

1953

Returning to South Africa in 1953, he joined the South African Congress of Democrats and in 1955 became its secretary for the Cape Western region, acting as a full-time organiser for the Congress of the People.

With Billy Nair, he drafted the economics section of the Freedom Charter.

1956

He was also the African representative on the Cape Provincial Council and served time in police detention, including as a defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial.

Turok married Mary Butcher, a politician and activist.

They had three sons together: Fred Turok; Ivan Turok; and Neil Turok, a cosmologist and founder of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Muizenberg, South Africa.

1994

He represented the African National Congress in the post-apartheid National Assembly from 1994 to 2014.

2019

He died on the morning of 9 December 2019 at his home in Cape Town.

He was 92 years old.