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SOUTH AFRICAN liberation struggle stalwart and former Morning Star worker Sarah Carneson has died.
Born Sarah Rubin in Johannesburg in 1916, her parents were immigrants from Lithuania and Russia who became founder members of the Communist Party of South Africa, now the SACP.
In 1943 she married fellow CPSA member Fred Carneson.
Following the war both faced persecution, with Fred imprisoned and tortured and Sarah placed under house arrest and declared a “banned person.”
Facing a 10-year sentence for breach of her banning order, Sarah went into exile in Britain in 1968.
There she worked in the trade union movement and in the financial department of the Morning Star. Fred joined the family on his release from prison in 1972.
The couple returned to South Africa in 1991 and remained active in the ANC and SACP. Fred died in 2000.
