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government. In 1963, he was found carrying firearms and arrested, and in 1964 he was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment on
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He was released in 1978 and continued to do underground work for MK, while working as an insurance salesman and manager at
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In May 2015, the ANC announced that Fihla would resign in order to cede the mayoral office to
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in 1953. While at Lovedale he attended political study groups run by students at the nearby
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from March 2013 until May 2015. Fihla first joined the ANC in 1954 through its
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in Port Elizabeth. During that time, in 1961, he joined the
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Mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality
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in 1994, Fihla was elected to represent the ANC in the
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Index

Benson Fihla
Member of the National Assembly
Port Elizabeth
Cape Province
Union of South Africa
African National Congress
South African Communist Party
African National Congress
National Assembly
Mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality
Youth League
Robben Island
Umkhonto we Sizwe
Port Elizabeth
Cape Province
Lovedale
Healdtown
University of Fort Hare
ANC Youth League
Barclays Bank
South African Communist Party
Umkhonto we Sizwe
apartheid
Robben Island
University of South Africa
Metropolitan Life
Eastern Cape
first post-apartheid elections
National Assembly
South African Parliament

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