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Sep 26, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
This month marks the 50th anniversary of MaNgutyana's release from solitary confinement. These were taken the day of her release. Frame 2 are her sisters & her step-mother. On the left is Nonyaniso Madikizela next to her is her step mom & far right is Iris Xaba.
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Step mom is the one in the beret. I didn't find the name of the other person. It looks like she could be Lieby. I want us to remember the role families played in supporting activists and the stories of harrassment we they endured that we may never know.
She also once played a supportive role before 1964 where she entered the struggle full throttle. Here she is in 1958 behind Madiba to Aziz Pahad's right as he addresses a crowd during the Treason Trial. Image
Scholar Nomboniso Gasa wrote a bit about this in this tribute to Chris Hani. The kinds of harrassment relatives went through is an aspect of our history that we are yet to unpack.
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Ben Turok was serving a three-year sentence at Pretoria Central around the time that Vuyisile Mini, Wilson Khayingo and Zinakile Mkabi were executed. Of this day in history he recalled, “I was already awake when the singing began again in the early morning…And then, unexpectedly Image
the voice of Vuyisile Mini came roaring down the hushed passages. Evidently standing on a stool, with his face reaching up to a barred vent his cell, his unmistakable bass voice was enunciating his final message in Xhosa to the world he was leaving.
In a voice charged with emotion but stubbornly defiant he spoke of the struggle waged by the African National Congress and of his absolute conviction of the victory to come. And then it was Khayingo’s turn, followed by Mkaba, as they too defied all prison rules to shout out their
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Jul 11, 2022
The Liliesleaf raid happened on this day in 1963 leading to the arrests of the Umkhonto Wesizwe High Command. Prior to this Mandela (already captured in 1962) was abruptly transferred from Robben Island to Pretoria Central. Image
The High Command was aware that Liliesleaf was increasingly becoming an unsafe haven, so plans to move its headquarters were under way by the time this day in history took place. They had identified a property in Krugersdorp as a potential new hideout.
Liliesleaf was purchased using Comminist Party funds in 1961. Mandela moved into its servant quarters under the name, David Motsamayi. The Goldreich family were the occupants of the main home. Of course this was to create the impression of a farm owner- farm worker relationship.
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Feb 15, 2022
In 1964, during the Rivonia Trial, Nelson Mandela said, "The ANC has never at any period of its history advocated a revolutionary change in the economic structure of the country, nor has it, to the best of my recollection, ever condemned capitalist society."
That man's statement is a little all over the place because if the ANC did not condemn capitalism, there would be no need to "work" anyone because they all felt the same way. The only one isolated from his comrades on Robben Island was Sobukwe.
Mandela was in prison for 27 years (1962-1990) and never claimed to have stayed on the island for 27 years. It's in his autobiography.
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Oct 8, 2021
The story of Solomon Linda is incredibly painful. Duped into selling away his rights to the song, Mbube. He passed away on this day in 1962. Image
Linda was born in Msinga, KZN on 9 December. He moved to Joburg in 1931 and worked in a furniture shop called Mayi Mayi. While in Joburg he founded the group Evening Birds. Their most famous song was Mbube.
He sold his rights to Gallo Records for 10 shillings in 1949. The Evening Bird's career, they recorded much of their music at the Gallo studios, founded by Eric Gallo. Apparently rights of the song could go back to Linda and his progeny after 25 years. It never happened.
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Aug 9, 2021
For this women's day here is a thread on women we should know. I want to start with Mazhar Makatemele who was also known as 'Black Sara'. She was the first Black woman in Sweden. How? She was kidnapped from Kwa-Zulu Natal by enslavers in 1846. She is buried in Sweden.
Rafaela Stålbalk has done some work on trying to uncover this story. Search a blog called Black Women in Europe for more information on Makatemele and her daughter.
Like last time there's no chronological order. So next up is the Mother of Azania, Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe (nee Mathe). Among her contributions is that she led a nurses strike at Victoria Hospital back in 1948 in Alice, Eastern Cape.
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Jun 8, 2021
We're 8 days away from the 45th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising. On 8 June 1976, two police officers walked into Naledi High School looking for a learner named Enos Ngutshane. Ngutshane was a SASM leader and these officers wanted to take him in for questioning.
Naledi High school students were having none of that. They threw stones at those cops and overturned the police's car. Ngutshane was wanted for writing a letter to the Minister of Bantu administration saying the students did not want to be taught in Afrikaans.
The incident coincidentally took place on anniversary of Naledi High's founding. The school was established on this day in 1963. Ngutshane was never part of the 16 June protests as he was arrested on the 14th for that letter he wrote. Ngutshane was in Matric that year.
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