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2020
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2020
Andrew Mlangeni and the game of golf
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER ANDREW Mlangeni was an iconic selfless leader with many outstanding qualities. And several true loves. His first true love was his wife, June, who stood by him and raised their children while he and Nelson Mandela languished in jail after being sentenced to life imprisonment. Mlangeni also had true love for his people. He gave up his own freedom so that all South Africans can today be free. He also loved the ANC, his political home, and stayed with the party even when it strayed from the values that he, Mandela and many founding members stood for.…
Jul
29
2020
Renew the ANC in honour of liberation hero – Mbeki
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER FORMER South African president Thabo Mbeki has made a passionate plea for the renewal of the ANC as a tribute to the political stalwart and hero Andrew Mlangeni, who was buried today. In a virtual tribute delivered to mourners at Mlangeni’s funeral, held in Soweto, Mbeki supported the calls for a consultative conference to deal with the challenges facing the ANC and to assist the party to grapple with its role as a governing party. Mlangeni, who passed away a week ago after a short illness, was buried at the Roodepoort Cemetery in Soweto, following a dignified…
Jul
24
2020
Andrew Mlangeni 1925-2020: South Africa loses the last of the Rivonia triallists
KEITH GOTTSCHALK, Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape ANTI-apartheid struggle hero Andrew Mokete Mlangeni, who died this week at the age of 95, was the last surviving of the eight African National Congress (ANC) activists who were sentenced to life imprisonment in the infamous Rivonia trial in the 1960s. Mlangeni spent 20 of his 26 years in jail on Robben Island alongside fellow triallist Nelson Mandela and other luminaries of the ANC. He symbolised the generations who had joined the ANC during the most dangerous period of resistance to apartheid. No rewards, but only vindictive persecution, including detention and…
Jul
24
2020
Special funeral for South African liberation hero
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SOUTH Africa has conferred its highest honor for Andrew Mlangeni, the 95-year-old political hero who passed away this week. The South African government has declared the highest class of an official funeral for the stalwart, who was a co-accused with the iconic Nelson Mandela in the Rivonia Treason Trial during which they were convicted and sentenced to life. He was the last remaining Rivonia trialist. President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the declaration of a special funeral: category 1 for Mlangeni, who turned 95 in last month, was a mark of respect. “Bab’ Mlangeni was awarded Isithwalandwe/Seaparankwe…
Jul
23
2020
Mbeki’s tribute to Mlangeni
"NEWS that Andrew Mlangeni had passed away has been received with genuine grief and sadness by many people in South Africa. Ntate Mlangeni, born June 6 1925 in Bethlehem, Free State, and passed away after a short illness on July 21 2020. Mlangeni came from a farm labourer family who were evicted while he was of a tender age. That is what brought him and his widowed mother to Johannesburg in search of work. From those humble beginnings was born and nurtured one who was to be driven by a passion for justice, a disdain for apartheid, and ultimately had…
Jul
22
2020
Warm tributes for South Africa’s political hero
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER ANTI-APARTHEID struggle stalwart Andrew Mlangeni’s granddaughter has led South Africans in paying warm tributes to the political hero last who has passed on. Granddaughter Thuli Mlangeni paid a warm tribute to her grandfather. “I am in so much pain and heartache... I have lost not only my grandfather but my father and best friend. Thank you for everything that you have done for me. I am who I am today because of you,” Thuli said. Her personal tribute stood above the political farewells that have poured in since his death was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa. Mlangeni,…
Jul
22
2020
Andrew Mlangeni in his own words…
IN honour of Andrew Mlangeni, a true South African hero, leader, grandfather, golfer and icon, the African Mirror today publishes a powerful speech he delivered two years ago when he was conferred with an honorary doctorate by Rhodes University. “My name is Andrew Mokete Mlangeni, born of farm tenants as a result of racially legislated land dispossession of the Land Act of 1913. I was born under the farm labour tenancy system. Which means from the day I was conceived, I was destined to be a future farm worker because of the labour tenancy system. A condemnation which many farm…
Jul
22
2020
Gallery: In memory of Andrew Mlangeni
SOUTH African political stalwart Andrew Mlangeni, the last surviving Rivonia trialist, has died. Mlangeni, 95, passed on at the 1 Military Hospital in Thaba Tshwane, Pretoria, where he had been admitted for treatment following an abdominal pain complaint. https://youtu.be/0gFsYi7mQFEVIDEO: City of Johannesburg