2016

 Joe would have been fuming at what's has happened to this Country. 

He campaigned against South African Apartheid and was an activist in the long-running  Picket in front of their embassy. 

I was with him few times for the night and remember his feeling against racism and xenophobia.

Now many of the things he fought for , the Welfare State, Race Equality, etc are at risk, in many ways it is better for him not to see this decline.

Joe is still remembered.

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