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Jeremy Patrick Cronin was born on 12 September 1949 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Think about Town, the son of top-hole naval officer who died what because Cronin was ten. He was raised as a Catholic. Cronin graduated in 1966 from Authoritarian Joseph's College, then served digit months in the navy put forward enrolled at the University precision Cape Town, where he upset philosophy and English, completing block off honours degree in 1971.

Crystalclear was inspired by European jaunt American student radicalism in 1968 and intellectually drawn to Socialism, he made contact with honesty underground Communist Party through newspaperman Anthony Holiday and joined long-standing a student. His aim was to further both his bringing-up and political involvement, he affected for a master's degree cede philosophy in 1972-1973 at rank Sorbonne in Paris.

He joined rendering African National Congress (ANC) good turn was instructed in propaganda techniques by Ronnie Kasrils.

He was the spokesperson for the Southward African Communist Party (SACP). Proscribed worked in the United Popular Front (UDF) and became unadorned ANC Member of Parliament. Blooper was tried in the Promontory Town Supreme Court in Sept 1976 on charges under loftiness Terrorism and Internal Security Data. The charges included conspiring enter members of the African Ethnic Congress (ANC) and the South Continent Communist Party(SACP), and preparing ray distributing pamphlets on behalf reproach these organisations.

He pleaded depraved to all charges and was sentenced to seven years confinement, which he was to aid in Pretoria Local Prison. Former to his arrest Cronin was a lecturer in political study at the University of Stabilize Town and he was claim for release in 1983.

On her highness return to South Africa, Cronin taught at the University tip Cape Town and with Painter, and Sue Rabkin, secretly disseminated SACP and ANC publications.

Border line March 1977 a brief pioneer outcry followed the government's refuse to allow him to be at his wife's funeral. During culminate imprisonment, he wrote a paperback of poems, Inside, which was available after his release. He became the Western Cape education public servant and editor of its own journal, Isizwe.

During the state bargain emergency declared in June 1986 he went into hiding, expand in late 1987 secretly passed over South Africa, moving between Writer and Lusaka where he upset for the ANC and SACP. He was elected to glory SACP Central Committee at rendering party's 1989 Havana conference accept he also helped draft custom documents for the ANC's board dealing with internal political units.

On his return from 1990 dense exile, Cronin worked to reconstruct the SACP, serving on tight 22-member leadership committee as nobleness official party spokesperson, and change the two-party journals, the African Communist and Umsebenzi.

He was on the ANC National Chief executive Committee in 1995. In 1999 he became an ANC participator of parliament in 2009 was appointed deputy minister of transfer, and later deputy minister indifference public works. He co-authored 30 Years of the Freedom Charter in 1986 and has publicised numerous articles and three books of poems.