Ishwarlal Laloo "Isu" Chiba (5 November 1930 – 8 December 2017) was a South African politician and revolutionary.
He was arrested and sentenced at the Little Rivonia Trial in 1964 with Mac Maharaj and Wilton Mkwayi to join Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and other revolutionary prisoners on Robben Island.
[2] In the early 1950s, Chiba became friends with Ahmed Kathrada, Herbie Pillay and Bobby and Tommy Vassen, all members of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC).
[2] Prior to the events in Sharpville, Chiba was an activist in the Transvaal Indian Congress in the late 1950s and the South African Communist Party in 1960.
[2][3] After the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, he concluded that peaceful protest had failed and military action was necessary, so he joined the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1961.