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Nchaupe Mokoape – a hard-boiled patriot

Nchaupe Mokoape – a hard-boiled patriot

MOSEBUDI MANGENA I was in the same Standard Six class with Nchaupe’s younger sister Barbara Makgadi Lebelo at Lethabong Primary School in Wallmansthal, just north of Pretoria. The Mokoape family are among those of us who were forcefully removed by the minority regime from that freehold area, which is now home to an army base. As we all know, the regime hated ownership of land by blacks, no matter how small. There can be no doubt that that forced removal business must have added a layer of his consciousness about the unjustness of the system of settler-colonialism that he fought…
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