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Anthony Slaughter: The punk pioneer making Senedd history for the Greens
Key takeaways
- Slaughter, who takes one of two Green seats in the Senedd, was the singer in a South African punk band, Riot Squad SA, who were the first-ever band from the country to release a punk record in the UK.
- The anti-apartheid campaigner came to the UK in the 1980s to avoid conscription to the "apartheid army" where he became part of the "anarchist squatting scene".
- The punk rock republican says he can be the "Kingmaker" as Plaid Cymru looks to lead the next Welsh government with Rhun ap Iorwerth as first minister.
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Mark Palmer Wales politics assistant editor Getty Images Anthony Slaughter has lived in South Africa and Australia Wales' Green leader Anthony Slaughter is a "record maker" in more ways than one as sees his party sit in the Welsh Parliament for the first time in its history.
Slaughter, who takes one of two Green seats in the Senedd, was the singer in a South African punk band, Riot Squad SA, who were the first-ever band from the country to release a punk record in the UK.
The anti-apartheid campaigner came to the UK in the 1980s to avoid conscription to the "apartheid army" where he became part of the "anarchist squatting scene".
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