Ebrahim Ebrahim

Ebrahim Ebrahim
Ebrahim in 2010
Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation
In office
11 May 2009 – 25 May 2014
Serving with Sue van der Merwe
PresidentJacob Zuma
Preceded byAziz Pahad
Succeeded byNomaindia Mfeketo
Personal details
Born
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim

(1937-07-01)1 July 1937
Durban, South Africa
Died(2021-12-06)6 December 2021 (aged 84)
Johannesburg, South Africa
Political partyAfrican National Congress
Spouse
Shannon Ebrahim (née Field)
(m. 2000)
RelationsGora Ebrahim (brother)
Children3
Alma materUniversity of South Africa (BA, BCom)
OccupationAnti-apartheid activist, lawmaker

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim OLG (1 July 1937 – 6 December 2021) was a South African anti-apartheid activist of Indian origin who was a member of the African National Congress's armed wing uMkhonto we Sizwe. He was tried in the Pietermaritzburg sabotage trials of 1963 and was sentenced to a 15-year imprisonment at the Robben Island Maximum Security Prison.

Popularly known as Ebie, he served as a lawmaker in the first democratically elected government of South Africa in 1994 and also served as the country's deputy minister for international relations between 2009 and 2014.