Peter Mokaba

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Peter Ramoshoane Mokaba (born January 7, 1958 in New Look Location near Pietersburg ; † June 9, 2002 in Johannesburg ) was a South African politician and president of the ANC Youth League from 1991 to 1994.

Life

Mokaba was born the second of four children to Priscilla and Albert Mokaba in a township in Pietersburg . While he was in primary school at the Roman Catholic Primary School in New Look, the family was forcibly relocated to Mankweng , 28 kilometers east of Pietersburg. Because there was no school here at the time, he had to go to elementary school in a nearby village, in Motolo. He was later able to attend the Pula-Madibogo Lower Primary School in Mankweng and finally the Dikolobe Senior Primary School and Hwiti High School .

During his high school days, Mokaba was the leader of a school boycott in the area around what was then Pietersburg as part of the Soweto uprising in 1976, as a result of which he was expelled from school. After escaping and hiding in nearby mountains at night, he was arrested in police custody on charges of public disturbance and was sentenced to one month in prison under the Terrorism Act . The South African government and that of the Lebowa homeland excluded him from school because of his political commitment. He nevertheless did his matriculation in self-study with graduation in 1978, so that he could enroll at the University of the North in 1980 . In between he was employed as a teacher at Makgoka High School in Moria . Here he taught mathematics and science; incidentally also karate , where he made it to the black belt.

Due to his affiliation with Umkhonto we Sizwe , he was imprisoned on Robben Island in 1982 ; In 1984 the judgment was overturned. After his release, he continued working for the United Democratic Front (UDF). In 1987 he was elected President of the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO), and in 1991 President of ANCYL. In the first free elections Mokaba won a seat in the National Assembly and was appointed Deputy Minister of Environment and Tourism in the cabinet of Nelson Mandela . In 1991, 1994 and 1997 he was elected to the national executive committee of the African National Congress . He was a close friend of Winnie Mandela .

Mokaba died in 2002 while campaigning for the 2004 elections . His political attitude was not without controversy: during the struggle against apartheid and after its end he often used the slogan "Kill the Boer, kill the farmer" (Eng .: kill the Boer , kill the farmer ); He rejected research on a drug against HIV . While the ANC spoke of a "natural cause of death" it was suspected that he died of AIDS .

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  1. ↑ a b National Orders ceremony, April 27, 2012 , accessed on August 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c Shelagh Gastrow: Who's Who in South African Politics Number 3 . Johannesburg 1990, p. 213
  3. ↑ a b Shelagh Gastrow: Who's Who in South African Politics Number 5 . Johannesburg 1995, p. 193
  4. ↑ a b c Gerald Shaw: Obituary Peter Mokaba . In: The Guardian, July 12, 2002, accessed August 7, 2012.
  5. ↑ Obituary for Mokaba ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the ANC website, accessed on August 7, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anc.org.za
personal data
SURNAME Mokaba, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mokaba, Peter Ramoshoane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African politician; President of the ANC Youth League (1991 to 1994)
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Polokwane
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2002
Place of death Johannesburg