Following his release from Robben Island, Seth Mazibuko was treated by the phychologist Saths Cooper also a former political prisoner , and then left to the care of his mother and father, after having suffered mental illness due to torture and abuse at hands of the apartheid police. He remains at the same site to this day after both his parents passed on some years ago. Mazibuko became a teacher and school principal.
Main image: Dignitaries outside the Mazibuko home at the plaque unveiling in Nonhlanhla Sifumba. The details above were extracted from the City of Johannesburg's inventory form for the Seth Mazibuko home.
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Skip to main content. You are here Home ». The home of jailed activist Seth Mazibuko. We have estimated Seth Mazibuko's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets. Seth Mazibuko was the youngest member of the South African Students' Organisation that planned and led the Soweto uprising. He was arrested in July at age sixteen.
Mazibuko was held in solitary confinement for 18 months in Number Four at the Fort Prison in Braamfontein before being charged, tried, and sent to Robben Island for seven years where he studied English and obtained his B. Seth Mazibuko. Age, Biography and Wiki Seth Mazibuko was born on Seth Mazibuko fans also viewed:. Kaori Manabe. Jang Seung-jo. James Aspey. Mazibuko believes the Struggle has not ended and never will until all black children can progress through quality education to prepare them to "graze in greener pastures".
He is disappointed that most student leaders have allegedly abdicated their leadership role and the trenches of working in their community. Otherwise they are not there. For 60 years, Mazibuko has tied his life to the Struggle.
To him, that is the purpose of his life. It is only the dawn of economic justice, the access to land and improvement of the education of the black child that will give him peace. It is the Black Consciousness spirit of self-reliance and self-determination that has been Mazibuko's ideological foundation.
He was influenced by this philosophy during his teenage years in the s. It is said that if you believe in the same things at 60 that you believed at 20, then you have lost 40 years of your life. People change with the times and times change people. But not for Mazibuko. The burning commitment of self-sacrifice to serve the people without expecting anything in return is what drives him. It was and will always be about giving community service. I believe our people, marginalised and poor, need us.
But as I say, they have been abandoned. He is so deeply rooted in this culture of selfless service that he wakes up early on some days to serve soup to the elderly in Orlando East. He is a member of the Orlando Task Team, a grouping that promotes the interests of the poor.
He depends on voluntary donations for this as he has neither government nor corporate support for his initiative. But I ask him why, considering his Struggle credentials, he is marginalised and poor like the people in his community.
This was the deputy president to Tsietsi Mashinini, student leader of the protests. In addition, he was accused Number 3 in the trial of the Soweto 11 leaders who allegedly were the masterminds behind the student upheavals. Mazibuko is infamous, depending on how you look at things, for being forthright and outspoken. He does not mince his words. In fact, there is a perception that I talk too much because I speak my mind.
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