Malcolm Dyani

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Malcolm Dyani
Member of the National Assembly
In office
May 1994 –April 2004
Personal details
Born
Malcolm Mbonisi Zamekile Dyani

(1945-02-14) 14 February 1945 (age 78)
Citizenship South Africa
Political party African National Congress (since 1999)
Other political
affiliations		 Pan Africanist Congress (until 1999)

Malcolm Mbonisi Zamekile Dyani (born 14 February 1945) is a retired South African politician and former anti-apartheid activist. He served in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2004, excepting a brief hiatus in 1999. A longstanding member of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), he defected to the African National Congress (ANC) in 1999.

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Early life and activism

Dyani was born on 14 February 1945 [1] and grew up in Duncan Village in the former Cape Province. [2] He was a student organiser for the PAC, which was banned by the apartheid government in 1960, and he was incarcerated on Robben Island from 1963 to 1978 for his activism. [3] After his release, in the 1980s, he was involved in a campaign to reassert the PAC's presence in the present-day Eastern Cape region, working with Benny Alexander and others on political education initiatives. [4]

Legislative career

In the 1994 general election, Dyani was elected to a PAC seat in the National Assembly. [5] He served in the seat until early April 1999, when, in the run-up to that year's general election, he resigned from the PAC to join the ANC. He accused the PAC of acting like the Democratic Party. [6] When the election was held in June 1999, he was elected to a second term in the National Assembly under the ANC's banner. [1]

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References

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  2. ↑ Bank, Leslie J.; Bank, Andrew (2013). "Untangling the Lion's Tale: Violent Masculinity and the Ethics of Biography in the 'Curious' Case of the Apartheid-Era Policeman Donald Card". Journal of Southern African Studies. 39 (1): 7–30. doi:10.1080/03057070.2013.768792. hdl: 10566/2965 . ISSN   0305-7070. JSTOR   42001333. S2CID   144991261.
  3. ↑ Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.; Ndlovu, Morgan (22 July 2021). Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century: Living Theories and True Ideas. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-000-41144-7.
  4. ↑ Buntman, Fran Lisa (27 October 2003). Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid. Cambridge University Press. p. 155. ISBN   978-0-521-00782-5.
  5. ↑ South Africa: Campaign and Election Report April 26–29, 1994. International Republican Institute. 1994. Retrieved 13 April 2023– via Yumpu.
  6. ↑ "Thousands gather to pay tribute to Hani". SAPA. 10 April 1999. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
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