Anton Muziwakhe Lembede

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Anton Lembede

Anton Muziwakhe Lembede (born March 21, 1914 in Eston, Natal , † July 30, 1947 ) was a South African teacher, lawyer and politician. From 1944 to 1947 he was the first president of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL).

Life

Lembede grew up in a farming family and was raised Anglican . His mother was a teacher and taught him at home. In 1927 the family moved to Mbumbulu to give their son a good education. Shortly before the move , they converted to Catholicism , which played an important role in the life of young Lembede. He was educated in a Catholic school where he performed well; he also worked in a kitchen to earn school fees and money for books. After graduating in 1933 he was able with the help of a scholarship , the Adams College in Durban visit. There he was trained as a teacher by Albert Luthuli, among others, until 1935 .

Lembede taught first in Natal, later in Orange Free State , and enrolled at the University of South Africa (UNISA), where he did a Bachelor and Bachelor of Laws . From 1943 he concentrated on legal activities and went to Johannesburg as a lawyer . There he worked under Pixley ka Isaka Seme , from 1946 he was his law firm partner. In 1945 he did his Masters at UNISA and started his doctorate . He died in 1947 of an unknown intestinal disease.

politics

Since his time in the Orange Free State, where he got to know the nationalism of the Boers , Lembede adhered to an African nationalism. After arriving in Johannesburg in 1943, his friendship with Jordan Ngubane and Ashby Peter Solomzi Mda revived, who introduced him to the African National Congress (ANC). When ANCYL was founded in 1944, he was a member of the provisional national committee; in September of that year he became president and pushed the founding manifesto. In the same year he was elected Deputy Secretary General of the ANC in Transvaal . In 1945 he worked with Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo against communist and anti-African influences in the provincial congress of the Transvaal and against the Native Representative Councils . In 1946, Lembede was elected to the ANC's national executive committee.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tributes to Lembede After His Death . In: South African History Online , accessed July 29, 2012.
  2. ↑ Order of Luthuli at thepresidency.gov.za , accessed on March 30, 2018 (English).
  3. ↑ Anton Lembede Street on durban.gov.za retrieved 8 July 2012 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Lembede, Anton Muziwakhe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lembede, Anthony Muziwakhe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African politician, first president of the ANC Youth League
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Eston, Natal
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1947