Mosiuoa Lekota
Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota was a South African anti-Apartheid revolutionary for the African National Congress (ANC) who served jail time with Nelson Mandela from 1985 and who left the ANC to form the Congress of the People (Cope) splinter party in 2008. He served as its President from 16 December 2008.
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- Kroonstad
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Trending topics shown first"We, the so-called Bantu speaking South Africans, came from the North, from the Great Lakes, we over-ran territory here which was occupied by the Khoi and the San. There was no title, we just occupied …"
"We are not going to give you money you’re sitting at home every day doing nothing. We must give you jobs we must give you money, because when you work you develop self-respect and dignity"
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1948
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