MATHATHA TSEDU WE first met at a Black People’s Convention (BPC) meeting outside Sibasa in the then Venda Bantustan in the mid seventies. There weren’t too many people in the meeting, there never was those days, as security police always monitored such gatherings and afterwards visited some of those attending. We just greeted and shook hands, no introductions, none was asked for and none proffered. At such meetings you took whatever information was given, and did not ask for more. If the person thought you should get more they would give it without prompting, when you asked for it, you…