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The apartheid government wanted to implement Afrikaans as an equal compulsory language of education for all South African students. He was a prefect and head of the debating team at Morris Isaacson High School. Teboho &#;Tsietsi&#; McDonald Mashinini born and raised in Soweto, Central Western Jabavu. He was one of the primary student leaders of the Soweto Uprising that began in Soweto and spread across South Africa in June, This left hundred to thousand of Students injured and dead.
After June 16 Tsietsi didn&#;t sleep at home anymore. Due to that he was one of the kids who planned a mass demonstration by students for June 16, Mashinini was identified as the leader of the uprising by the apartheid government. At the age of 19 years Tsietsi had to hide for police. Like some of the freedom fighter, he went to exile. Two months after burying students and friends. who were killed by the apartheid police.
He stayed in various countries, when he was in Liberia as a man he felt in love and married Welma A Campbell. While in Guinea death met him. He dead a month before returning home to the freedom they fought for. His body was repatriated to South Africa and buried in Aval
Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
Tsietsi Mashinini was born on 27 January in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher in the Methodist Church, and Nomkhitha Mashinini, and was one of 13 children (11 boys and twin girls). He was active in his local Methodist parish and chairperson of the Methodist Wesley Youth Guild at the age of
His education started at the Amajeli crèche in He went on to Seoding Lower Primary, after which he proceeded to Itshepeng Higher Primary. In he became a student at Morris Isaacson High. He was a passionate reader. This was spotted by his History and English teacher, Abram Onkgopotse Tiro, who taught at Morris Isaacson after was expelled from the University of the North (Turfloop) for his political activities. Tiro had great influence in shaping Mashinini's political thinking and subsequent adherence to the ideology and philosophy of Black Consciousness. He mentored him and supplied him with reading material. Through Tiro, Mashinini started reading about the history of Africa’s struggles, American slavery, the Human Rights Movements in the USA and about the evil of apartheid. Mashinini w
Tsietsi Mashinini
January 27 — July 5
Artist: Johannes Phokela Location: Opposite Morris Isaacson High School, Mputhi Street, Central Western Jabavu, Soweto, Johannesburg |
Soweto-born artist Johannes Phokela’s memorial honouring youth leader Tsietsi Mashinini features a montage tracing the route of the march superimposed on a wall that resembles a giant exercise book.
Picture: Craig Matthews, Doxa © South African History Archive
At 8am on June 16 Tsietsi Mashinini interrupted the school assembly to lead the first group of students out of the gates and on the march that started the Soweto uprising. They were protesting the use of Afrikaans in schools. A reward was posted for his capture and one afternoon security police checked every student leaving the grounds. Mashinini, who was a prefect at Morris Isaacson, escaped detection by dressing up as a girl. After the march he never slept at home again and fled the country two months later.
From The Archives
Fanyana Mazibuko's testimony to the TRCDuring the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings on human rights violations, Fanyana Mazibuko, Tsietsi Mashinini’s former science teacher, recounted th
Teboho "Tsietsi" MacDonald Mashinini (born 27 January – ) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and prominent student leader during the Soweto Uprising.
Life
Teboho Tsietsi Mashinini known by his pet name "Mcdonald" was born in , 27 January. He was the second of 13 children of Ramothibe (father) and Nomkhitha Virginia (mother) Mashinini. He was a bright, popular and successful student at Morris Isaacson High School in Soweto where he was the head of the debate team and president of the Methodist Wesley Guild.
A move by South Africa's apartheid government to make the language Afrikaans an equal mandatory language of education for all South Africans in conjunction with English was extremely unpopular with black and English-speaking South African students.
A student himself, Mashinini planned a m* demonstration by students for 16 June This demonstration which would become known as the Soweto Uprising lasted for three days during which several hundred people were killed.
Having been identified as the leader of the uprising by the South African government, Mashinini fled South Africa in e
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