Donald Woods
This white South African was an anti-apartheid activist and it cost him his nationality in 1977 after the death of his friend Steve Biko, whose biography Woods wrote.
He was forced to flee the country after his daughter was burnt by a chemical that had been put on her t-shirt. He was sure that someone was out to get him and he had to be smuggled out of his house at night.
He went to Lesotho, where he was later joined by his family before heading to London, using a United Nations passport and accompanied by a government official from Botswana.
