Neville Curtis

Joyce was involved in the Black Sash movement and his father Jack ran as a candidate for the Progressive Party, which campaigned against apartheid.After being arrested for leading a march in 1968 to demand the release of people detained without trial,[1] Neville Curtis became NUSAS Additional Deputy Vice President to fill a vacancy caused by the government's expulsion of the incumbent Deputy, Andrew Murray.In September 1974 he was charged with breaking the banning orders, and fled the country to Australia where he had family connections.In 1984, Curtis' sister Jeanette Schoon, who had fled South Africa also, was killed along with her six-year-old daughter Katryn by a letter bomb delivered by police spy Craig Williamson.[4] Curtis settled in Tasmania in the 1980s where he became a supporter of independent MP Bob Brown and the group that became the Tasmanian Greens.
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