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Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu, a key leader in the African National Congress (ANC), and confidant and mentor to Nelson Mandela, was born on May 18, 1912 in the village of Qutubeni in the municipality of Engcobo, to Alice Mase Sisulu, a Xhosa domestic worker.
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His father, Victor Dickinson, a white civil servant, was never a presence in his life. Instead, his upbringing was left to his mother and her family.
Though he completed grade six, Sisulu was forced to leave the Anglican Missionary School at age 14 to support his family.
While working in South Africa’s gold mines he met Clements Kadalie, the founder of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU, formed in 1919), who solidified Sisulu’s belief in equality through unionism. In 1933, he returned to Soweto and became involved in numerous civic clubs including the Orlando Brotherly Society, a Xhosa cultural and aid group.
In 1940, Sisulu formally joined the ANC and one year later he met Nelson Mandela whom he would persuade t