The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania is a South African national liberation Pan-Africanist movement that is now a political party. It was founded by an Africanist group,led by Robert Sobukwe,that broke away from the African National Congress (ANC) in 1959,as the PAC objected to the ANC's "the land belongs to all who live in it both white and black" and also rejected a multiracialist worldview,instead advocating a South Africa based on African nationalism.
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was a prominent South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and founding member of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC),serving as the first president of the organization.
The Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is a South African liberation movement and political party. The organisation's two student wings are the Azanian Students' Movement (AZASM) for high school learners and the other being for university level students called the Azanian Students' Convention (AZASCO),its women's wing is Imbeleko Women's Organisation,simply known as IMBELEKO. Its inspiration is drawn from the Black Consciousness Movement inspired philosophy of Black Consciousness developed by Steve Biko,Harry Nengwekhulu,Abram Onkgopotse Tiro,Vuyelwa Mashalaba and others,as well as Marxist Scientific Socialism.
The MELS Movement of Botswana is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party in Botswana without parliamentary representation. Themba Joina,a practicing lawyer,is the president of the organization. The name MELS is derived from (Karl) Marx,(Friedrich) Engels,(Vladimir) Lenin and (Joseph) Stalin.
The Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA),formerly known as Poqo,was the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress,an African nationalist movement in South Africa. In the Xhosa language,the word 'Poqo' means 'pure'.
David Bambatha Maphgumzana Sibeko was known as the "Malcolm X of South Africa" and began his political career as a journalist for the black South African magazine Drum. During his tenure with that magazine,he became a leading figure within the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania. During the 1970s he headed the United Nations Observer Mission of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in New York City and used this position to popularize the PAC particularly among African Americans. In 1979 Sibeko was partially successful in a leadership coup against Potlako Leballo. However,he failed to get support from the Second Azanian People's Liberation Army,recruited from the 1976 student protest generation and was shot dead during an argument with them at his flat in Oyster Bay,Dar es Salaam,Tanzania on 12 June 1979.
Tshwane University of Technology is a higher education institution in South Africa that came into being through a merger of three technikons —Technikon Northern Gauteng,Technikon North-West and Technikon Pretoria.
Pan Africanist Youth Congress (PAYCO) is the youth wing of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in South Africa. Eastern Cape Launched the first PAYCO Regional Congress under the RTT Leadership led by Comrade Luvo Nkwenkwe.
Johannes "Joe" Modise was a South African political figure. He helped to found Umkhonto we Sizwe,the military wing of the African National Congress,and was its longest serving Commander in Chief,deputised at different points in time by Joe Slovo and Chris Hani. Modise headed MK for a 25-year period,from 1965 to 1990. He served as South Africa's first black Minister of Defence from 1994 to 1999 and led the formation of the post-independence defence force.
John Nyathi "Poks" Pokela was a South African political activist and Chairman of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC).
Potlako Kitchener Leballo was an Africanist who led the Pan Africanist Congress until 1979. Leballo was co-founder of the Basutoland African Congress in 1952,a World War II veteran and primary school headmaster.
Zephania Lekoame Mothopeng was a South African political activist and member of the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC).
Mmbara Hulisani Kevin is the former president (2007–2009) of PAYCO,a youth wing of PAC in South Africa. Hulisani made news headlines when he took a defiant stance against the current president of PAC,even going to the extent of calling for his resignation.
Letlapa Mphahlele is a member of the National Assembly of South Africa who represents the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania.
The Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania (PASMA) is a revolutionary student movement born at the University of the Western Cape,Cape Town,South Africa. It was founded in 1989 as the "Pan Africanist Student Organisation of Azania" (PASO) in Roodepoort,Johannesburg. Among its founders were Lungelo Mbandazayo and Lawrence "General" Nqandela,who led the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania youth wing.
Khoisan X,formerly Benny Alexander,was a South African political activist born in Kimberley,South Africa.
Malaika wa Azania,born Malaika Lesego Samora Mahlatsi,is a South African writer,political commentator,essayist,blogger,columnist and television presenter. She is also a self-proclaimed feminist. In 2014,she published her first book "Memoirs of a Born Free." The book describes her family history,beginning with her grandmother's life,then her mother,and finally her own. The book is framed as a letter to the ANC to both thank and criticize the party on the development of South Africa since 1994. Primarily,wa Azania details her disillusionment with the concept of the "Rainbow Nation" and being a "Born Free."
Mayihlome News is an online political journal published from South Africa. Mayihlome News was launched in 2009,on a free WordPress platform with Mmbara Hulisani Kevin as Editor in Chief. On 16 February 2015,Mayihlome News moved from the free WordPress platform to a self-hosted platform and registered a unique domain. Mayihlome News also rebranded introducing the Man in the Green Blanket in its branding in honour of the leader of the Marikana Miners who were massacred by South African Police Service on 16 August 2012. A news section on Mayihlome News which was aimed at encouraging community journalism was discontinued due to lack of consistent content. Articles published on Mayihlome News are submitted by "students,workers,struggle veterans,revolutionary academics,historians,cultural activists,social activists and other constituencies involved in the struggle for the emancipation of mankind from the yoke of capitalism in all its forms".
Ashby Solomzi Peter Mda,also known as A. P. Mda was a South African teacher,lawyer,political activist and co founder of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL). He was also one of the founders of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania.
Ronald Ozzy Lamola is a South African lawyer and politician,Minister of Justice and Correctional Services,and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). He has also been serving as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since 22 May 2019. He is a member of the ANC's National Executive Committee and National Working Committee. Lamola had previously been involved in the African National Congress Youth League.
