Meeting in secret with the African National Congress president

Meeting in secret with the African National Congress president

Peter Bird Martin was a correspondent, then senior editor for Time magazine and a founding editor of Money magazine before he became executive director of ICWA in 1978, tirelessly championing its mission for the next 27 years and mentoring 77 fellows. As a fellow from 1953 to 1955, he reported on social, economic and political issues of sub-Saharan Africa during decolonization. In this September 1954 dispatch from Johannesburg, South Africa, Pet…