TRIBUTE BY AZANLA COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND AZAPO HONORARY PRESIDENT MOSIBUDI MANGENA A HERO IS DEAD In the early hours of Friday, the 28th June 2019, Nkutsoeu “Skaap” Motsau took his…
TRIBUTE TO CDE THIVHILELI MUTOBVUBy Cde Enos Nephawe25 January 2021 First he was my comrade, then he became my friend, then he became my very close friend, then everything became blurred that I couldn’t tell which was which except to know that we needed…
A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE CDE NKUTŠOEU SKAAP MOTSAU By Nelvis Qekema1 July 2019 Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) had Chris Hani. The Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) had Sabelo Phama. The Azanian National Liberation Army (AZANLA) had Nkutšoeu Skaap Motsau. Motsau, who was Scretary…
A TRIBUTE TO CDE ADVOCATE KABELO LENGANE By Nelvis Qekema20 March 2019 “Goduka Guerilla”. Political activist and human rights lawyer Adv Kabelo Lengane (56) breathed his last on 17 March 2019 at his house in Bryanston, Johannesburg. It was such an ambush to all…
A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE CDE THENJIWE LEEUW By Nelvis Qekema29 April 2018 Cde Thenjiwe Leeuw seems to have lived by the prescript of Daniel O’Donnel’ s Desiderata where it advises: “Go placidly amid the noise and hasteAnd remember what peace there may be,…
It was late on Sunday afternoon on August 20 when Dr Tshehla Francis Hlahla left his surgery at Ga-Hlahla village to drive to Mahwelereng in Mokopane (Potgietersrus), where his main practice was situated. He was a few kilometres into his journey when he was…
A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE AZANLA COMMANDER CDE MADODA GERMAN JABULANI KAZI 24 May 1959 – 25 July 2017 By Nelvis Qekema 31 July 2017 Comrade Madoda German Kazi’s gifts seem to have included knowing when to die. Indeed, he chose to pass his…
Makhwenkwe Jonathan Mathe, a former Robben Islander and AZANLA soldier, who was popularly known around Pretoria as Fastback, passed away on Wednesday, the 17th February 2016 in Atteridgeville after a long illness. His death has robbed AZAPO of a veteran and a community leader…
Reflecting on his own life, the Bolshevik Novelist and Commissar, Nikolai Ovstrovsky, wrote thus: “Man’s dearest possession is life and since it is given to him, but once-he must so live as not to be besmeared by the shame of a cowardly existence and…
BRIEF PROFILE OF THE LATE CDE THEMBA ‘LEFTY’ SOLWANDLE 20 AUGUST 1946 – 06 NOVEMBER 2007 By Nelvis Qekema AZAPO National Political Commissar Malcom X’s illustration of the difference between what he calls a House Nigger and a Field Nigger may be of great…
05/06/1962 – 13/06/2005 By Cde Simphiwe Hashe Cde Fanele Myaleni was born on the 05 June 1962 in Port Elizabeth. He was a family man who had six children from his two marriages. His first wife gave him four children before she passed on. …
