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Govan Mbeki
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Govan Archibald Mvuyelwa Mbeki (9 July 1910 - 30 Apartheid in South Africa August 2001) was a South African politician, and father of Events and Projects the former South African president Thabo Mbeki and Moeletsi Mbeki. He was named in honour of Edward Sharpeville Massacre Govan, a Scottish missionary who founded Lovedale Soweto uprising · Treason Trial [1] Rivonia Trial · Mahlabatini Declaration College, the school that he attended in the Eastern Cape. Church Street bombing · CODESA St James Church massacre He attended Fort Hare University, completing in 1936 a Cape Town peace march · Purple Rain Bachelor of Arts degree in politics and psychology and a Organisations teaching diploma, and met other African struggle leaders there. ANC · IFP · AWB · Black Sash · CCB Conservative Party · ECC · PP · RP In 1954, he joined the editorial board of New Age, which PFP · HNP · MK · PAC · SACP · UDF was to be the only South African newspaper serving the Broederbond · National Party liberation movement for the eight following years. Mbeki COSATU · SADF · SAP played an immensely important role in ensuring that the People pages and columns reflected the conditions of the black peoples, their demands and aspirations. In November 1962, P. W. Botha · Oupa Gqozo · D. F. Malan the then Minister of Justice, John Vorster, banned New Age. Nelson Mandela · Desmond Tutu F. W. de Klerk · Walter Sisulu When the editorial board came out with its successor, Helen Suzman · Harry Schwarz Vorster went one step further by banning not the newspaper Andries Treurnicht · H. F. Verwoerd but its editors and writers. Oliver Tambo · B. J. Vorster Kaiser Matanzima · Jimmy Kruger He was a leader of the African National Congress (ANC) Steve Biko · Mahatma Gandhi and of the South African Communist Party. After the Joe Slovo · Trevor Huddleston Rivonia Trial, he was imprisoned for terrorism and treason Places (1964–1987) with Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and other ANC leaders. Bantustan · District Six · Robben Island Sophiatown · South-West Africa On June 26, 1980 the Secretary General of the African Soweto · Sun City · Vlakplaas National Congress , Alfred Nzo, announced the conferring of Other aspects the Isitwalandwe Medal, the ANC's highest honour, on Govan Mbeki. Mbeki was not present to receive the award, Afrikaner nationalism because he was serving a life imprisonment sentence on Apartheid laws · Freedom Charter Sullivan Principles · Kairos Document Robben Island. Disinvestment campaign South African Police Govan Mbeki was released from custody after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison on November 5, 1987. He served in South Africa's post-apartheid Senate from 1994 to 1997 as Deputy President of the Senate, and its successor, the National Council of Provinces from 1997 to 1999.
Mbeki's remains were the subject of controversy in 2006 when plans were made to exhume them, and place them in a museum. These plans were called off after Mbeki's family refused the request. [1]
Mbeki received international recognition for his political achievements including the renaming of the recently opened Health building at Glasgow Caledonian University. The Govan Mbeki Health Building was inaugurated in 2001 at a ceremony featuring his son Thabo. References
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1. ^ "The Gov'nor". Financial Times (London). 14 June 2001.
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