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Molefe Pheto

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Molefe Pheto
Tsalo1935
Tiro
  • Musician
  • Teacher
  • Activist
Dingwaga tsa a le mo tirong1970-present
Notable work
And Night Fell: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in South Africa

Molefe Pheto (o tshotswe ka ngwaga wa 1935) ke seopedi sa maloba sa Aforika Borwa le morutabana wa mmino yo, jaaka molweladitshwanelo wa Mokgatlho wa Boitemogo jwa Batho Bantsho, a neng a nna legolegwa la sepolotiki ka ngwaga wa 1975. E ne e le tsala le mmueledi wa Tautona wa Aforika Borwa Nelson Mandela.[1]

Botshelo jwa bogologolo

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Pheto o tshotswe ka ngwaga wa 1935 kwa Motsesetoropong wa Alexandra, Aforika Borwa, kwa a goletseng teng.[2][3]

Mokgwa wa go itshetsa le tswelelopele

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Pheto e ne e le motsayakarolo yo o matlhagatlhaga mo Mokgatlhong wa Boitemogo jwa Bantsho go tloga ka ngwaga wa 1970. Ka ngwaga wa 1971, o ne a tlhoma setlhopha sa Boitemogo jwa batho Bantsho sa Mhloti, a dira le ba bangwe jaaka Wally Serote, a tlhagisa mmino, poko, le ditiragalo tsa bobogelo le go diragatsa dipuo ke balwela-dipolotiki le dikolo, dikereke[4]. Pheto o ne a rulaganyetsa MDALI (Setheo sa Mmino, Terama, Botsweretshi le Dikwalo kwa Soweto) meletlo e meraro ya Botsweretshi jwa Bantsho, e a neng a le leloko la mothei le mmueledi wa yone, mme ka ngwaga wa 1975 o ne a tshwarwa ka fa tlase ga Molao wa Borukhutlhi wa Aforika Borwa wa ngwaga wa 1963 dikgwedi di le lesome.[5]O ne a tshwaretswe kwa ntlokgolong ya mapodisi kwa Johannesburg, kwa John Vorster Square.[6]

Ka ngwaga wa 1977, Pheto o ne a tswa mo Aforika Borwa mme, morago ga polao ya ga Steve Biko, a simolola botshelo jwa botshabelo kwa Borithane.[7] Ka ngwaga wa 1983, Allison & Busby e e kwa London e ne ya gatisa buka ya gagwe ya dikgakologelo, And Night Fell: Dikgakologelo tsa Mogolegwa wa Sepolotiki mo Aforika Borwa,[8][9] e e neng ya thibelwa mo Aforika Borwa.[10]

Morago ga dingwaga di le masome a mabedi kwa Borithane, Pheto o ne a boela kwa Aforika Borwa mme a nna mo polaseng kwa Magaliesburg, a gatisa buka ya gagwe ya bobedi, e e bidiwang Poo e e tswang kwa Moruleng: Dipono tsa Legae le Botshabelo, ka 2014.[11][10]Ke leloko la Mokgatlho wa Batho ba Azania (AZAPO).[3]

  • And Night Fell: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in South Africa, London: Allison and Busby, 1983.
  • The Bull from Moruleng: Vistas of Home and Exile, Ekaam Books, 2014
  1. David Smith (31 December 2009). "Ghosts of South African prison tell what apartheid really meant". The Guardian.
  2. Clarke's Bookshop, 2014 Catalogue 123, p. 33
  3. 1 2 Molefe Pheto", South African History Online, 20 January 2017.
  4. John Peffer, Art and the End of Apartheid, Volume 2, University of Minnesota Press, 2009, p. 73.
  5. Peter O. Stummer and Christopher Balme (eds), Fusion of Cultures?, Cross/Cultures 26, ASNEL Papers 2, Rodopi, 1996, p. 186.
  6. Sue Blaine, "Apartheid revisited, for a better future", Business Day Live, 4 October 2012, via The Atlantic Philanthropies.
  7. Wits Oral History Interviews, 20 April 2011
  8. Moji Mokone, "Book reviews : And Night Fell: memoirs of a political prisoner in South Africa", Race & Class, October 1984, vol. 26, no. 2 103–104
  9. William F. Schulz (15 May 2007). The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0812219821.
  10. 1 2 Phumla Mkize, "Story of a freedom not yet realised", Sowetan, 2 May 2014, via PressReader
  11. Jane Rosenthal, "Exile's bullish reconnection with his ancestral land", Mail & Guardian, 17 April 2014.