Madikizela-Mandela’s postman recalls struggle role
Hide and seek … Mongalo Thebe at the entrance to an underground chamber where he used to conceal ANC members during the struggle. Despite hiding his fellow comrades fleeing from the apartheid police and taking risky jaunts to Lesotho to deliver Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s letters, Mongalo Thebe remains humble about his contribution to the struggle. One would never guess that a beautiful double storey house with a lush garden in a Bloemfontein suburb harboured ANC members when the movement was forced underground by the apartheid regime three decades ago. The owner of the house, Mongalo Thebe, showed The Weekly the tunnel…
ANC centenary puts Mangaung on global map
Supporting the party … Supporters of the ANC were in high spirits when they filled Free State Stadium and the overflow areas during the party’s historic centenary celebrations held in Bloemfontein on Sunday. An air of excitement enveloped the Mangaung Metropolitan area last weekend when the ANC celebrated its 100th year of existence in spectacular fashion.The main celebrations stretched over three days and more than 100 000 visitors flocked to Bloemfontein to be part of the historic event. Although final figures still had to be tallied, indications are that well over 6 000 invited guests, which included 46 heads of…
Zuma vows to renew ANC
The ANC in 2012 will take “urgent and practical steps” to fast-track the development of cadres, new and old. Delivering the ANC’s centenary January 8 statement to a packed Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein, President Jacob Zuma said the party would take various steps to once again place the ANC at the forefront of the progressive forces for change. “We shall introduce and enforce measures to ensure that every member has undergone compulsory political and ideological training so that they understand fully the undertaking that to join the ANC is to make a conscious choice of serving the nation.” To…
