Tony Trew (also known as Anthony Andrew Trew) (
Cape Town
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, 6 July 1941) is a South African
politician
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and
discourse analyst. He was one of the editors of the seminal book ''Language and control'' (1979), which helped establish
critical linguistics as an academic field.
He obtained a
BA in
Political Theory
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from the
University of Witwatersrand
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in 1962. His overt political compromise against
apartheid
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led to his being imprisoned from 1964 to 1965 for collaboration with noted activist
Edward Joseph Daniels; at his release he left the country for the
United Kingdom
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, where he continued his studies at the
University of Oxford
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. In 1970 he was appointed a lecturer at the
University of East Anglia
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, where he taught logic, history of science and discourse analysis. He left the university in 1980 to hold a post as Director of Research at the
International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, where he would remain until 1991; in this position he coordinated research on South Africa, as well as monitoring tasks in collaboration with
political dissent
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s.
He returned to South Africa in 1991 to work as senior researcher for the
African National Congress
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, and in 1993 he was selected as research coordinator for the Elections Commission of the ANC. A year later he was transferred to the Office of the
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as Director of Communications Research, a post he held until 1999. From 2002 he is Deputy
CEO
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at the office of Strategy and Content Management.
He was portrayed by
Trevor Sellers in the
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