Five facts about Peter Hain

LONDON (Reuters) - Peter Hain, 57, has resigned over the row over political donations to his campaign to become deputy leader of the Labour party last year.

Here are five facts about the Work and Pensions Secretary:

-- Born in Nairobi on Feb 16, 1950 and brought up in South Africa, Hain was educated at Pretoria Boys High School, the University of London and Sussex University. He achieved international prominence at an early age because of his work in the anti-apartheid movement.

-- he was chairman of the campaign that disrupted South African rugby and cricket tours in 1969 and 1970

-- in 1972 he was sent a letter bomb, although it failed to explode.

-- four years later he was tried for and acquitted of a bank robbery widely believed to have been a set-up by South African intelligence agents using a Hain look-alike.

-- he became Chairman of the Young Liberals in 1971 in which post he continued to campaign against the South African government. He joined Labour in 1977