Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (May 18, 1912 – May 5, 2003) was a South Africa

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n anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress

African National Congress

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 (ANC).
Sisulu was born in Engcobo in the Union of South Africa

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. His mother Alice Mase Sisulu was a Xhosa domestic worker

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 and his father, Albert Victor Dickenson, was white

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. Dickenson worked in the Railway Department of the Cape Colony from 1903 to 1909 and was transferred to the Office of the Chief Magistrate in Umtata in 1910.