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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Conco, Dr. Wilson Z
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History
Dr. WZ Conco, having graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1948 as a medical doctor, joined the African National Congress in 1950, where he became the national treasurer of its Youth League and played a prominent role at the Congress of the People in 1955. He was banned and restricted to the Ixopo district in Natal. After his release from the Treason Trial he moved to Swaziland and later to London, where he became involved in the work of the Luthuli Memorial Foundation.