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Thomas Madikwe Manthata

Thomas Madikwe Manthata was born November 29,1939 in Soekmekaar in the Northern Transvaal.His parents had no formal education.He completed teacher trainiong,taught primary school for three years and made a detour throgh Catholic seminary but was expelled after several years for being too political inclined.

Lucas Manyane Mangope

Lucas Manyane Mangope was born west of Zeerust near Bechuanaland border  on December 27,1923,the son of a local chief,Mangope graduated from St Peter's School in Johannesburg in 1946.After working for several years in the Department of Native Affairs,he earned two teaching diplomas and taught Afrikaans at secondary school level until the late 1950s.During the 1957-59 uprising in the Hurutshe reserve against the extension of passes to women,he advanced rapidly from minor hereditary chief to vice-chairman of the tswana territorial Authority when it was established in 1961.

Alfred Mangena

Alfred Mangena was born in Escort in present day Kwazulu Natal circa 1879. He managed to acquire little formal public education, and eventually began to study privately in Cape Town. Later he went to complete his schooling in England and after matriculating he studied Law at Lincoln's Inn. He was called to the Bar in 1909.

Zolile Malindi

Zolile Malindi was born on 16th of May in 1924 Gqogqora village ,a 14 miles from Tsomo in the former Transkei. His mother, Makhesa, raised him after the death of his father, Mbulawa Malindi, an elder in the Bantu Presbytarian Church, when Zolile was ten years old.He attended a mission school in the Tsomo district following which he enrolled at St John’s College, a teacher training college in Umtata. He received his teaching diplomoa in 1943 but jobs were scarce  but he was helped by his home-boy,Greenwood Ngotyana.In 1941, Malindi moved to Cape Town to look for work.

Ambrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane

Ambrose Makiwane was born in 29th of November in1921 near Cala in the Transkei. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student strike. The son of two teachers, who also farmed.his parents could not afford to send him to university after he finished school delayed his enrollment.Makiwane got involved in politics and the labour movement after finishing high school but before enrolling at the University of Fort Hare.