Category Archives: Obituaries
IN LOVING MEMORY OF A REVOLUTIONARY: MAM’ NOMVO BOOI!
If you met Nomvo Booi in the streets, you wouldn’t have given her a second glance. You wouldn’t have known that she was a premier patriotic. She had no airs and pretences about herself, preferring to be part and parcel
Reaction to the Passing of Clarence Mlamli Makwetu
On behalf of Veronica Zodwa Sobukwe and the Sobukwe family, the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Trust and its trustees would like send our condolences to the Makwetu family. uTatu Clarance Mlamli Makwetu was a family friend, and he was a pillar
TRIBUTE TO DR. LAURETTA NOZIWE NGCOBO!!!
Programme Director, the Ngcobo Family and Relatives, Ma-Afrika, Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen, we are here to celebrate the life of a mother, sister, freedom fighter, activist in the movement to win political, economic and social equality for women; an author
BENNIE BUNSEE (1935 – 2015): TRIBUTE TO A SOBUKWE-BIKO WARRIOR!!!
When Steve Biko died, according to the poet, birds never sang, the wind never blew, and clouds never gathered. It is perhaps poetic too to say that when Bennie Bunsee passed on, on the afternoon of Saturday, 10 October 2015,
TRIBUTE TO DR. NANA SESHIBE A WARRIOR OF THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE!!
First of all, I want Comrade Seshibe and his children and all his relatives to know that we are proud of the life Dr Nana Seshibe has lived. Dr. Nana passed away in Washington DC and is being buried tomorrow
THE POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF CDE. MAXWELL HUMBELANI “MR MAN” NEMADZIVHANANI!!!
In 1975 he joined the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) of Azania under the late PAC stalwart and founder member, the late Mr. Josias Madzunya. In 1976-1977 he served as Regional Organizer of the South African Student Movement (SASM), a Black
TRIBUTE TO BISHOP LESAOANA CALEB MAKHANDA!
The measure of a man is not how he died, but how he lived his life…Not what he gained, but what he gave. The greatest thing in life is to live for a purpose. The warrior that will be buried
TRIBUTE TO MXOLISI ‘ACE’ MGXASHE!
Sadly, Bra Ace Mgxashe passed away in his hometown of Cape Town on Sunday 21 July 2013 after a severe bout of shortness of breath. He had always complained to most Africanists close to him that he was not well,
