Peter Hain
British MP and former Cabinet Minister who was actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement. He was brought up in South Africa, where his parents were anti-apartheid activists and were jailed and banned before being forced into exile, in the UK, in 1966. In London, Peter Hain was actively involved in the Sports Boycott of South Africa, and organised campaigns to disrupt the South Africa rugby union and cricket tours in the UK. In 1972 he was sent a letter bomb by the apartheid security services that failed to explode. He became a Labour MP in 1991, and served as a government minister for 12 years including in the cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was Leader of the House of Commons, and then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, and at the same time for Wales.