Leon Louw
Leon Louw is a South African intellectual, author, speaker and policy advisor. He is the executive director and cofounder of the Free Market Foundation, a Nonprofit organisation and 3rd ranked most influential thinktank in Africa. He is a regularly featured speaker and writer in South African and international media. He has addressed many prominent organisations, including the US congress hearings on apartheid, the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, the Hoover Institute and the United Nations.
Leon Louw was born in the town of Krugersdorp onMarch 1948. After his mother died in his infancy, he was raised by relatives in Potchefstroom, where he attended preschool and started primary school. When his father remarried, he was moved to the new family home in Johannesburg where he completed primary school and attended secondary school. After matriculating, he studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand , after which he completed his BJuris degree through UNISA whilst serving legal articles at a law firm . At university, he became a Marxist and antiapartheid activist. He studied the major works of Marx and other communist writers. As an activist participating in antiapartheid demonstrations and underground meetings he often found himself at odds with the law and the police . He went on to work with Winnie Mandela, Hans Solo and other antiapartheid leaders, and did courier work for the ANC .
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