ANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu

Date: 12 Mar 1975
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

On 12 March, 1975, Stanley Mabizela the African National Congress (ANC) Chief representative in Swaziland wrote a handwritten letter to the ANC to thank them for a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu in Swaziland. In his letter Mabizela wrote; “Dear Comrade, first, may I say we are very thankful to you for making it possible for us to be visited by comrade Thabo and Max. It was like a reunion of ‘lost sheep with their flock’. We all wanted to talk at the same time and to hear everything at once! Even the P.A.C chaps joined us, and very enthusiastically, before they remembered to catch themselves...” In 1982, Mabizela was forced to leave Swaziland following a security agreement between King Sobhuza and the South African government. He then served as the ANC’s Chief Representative in Tanzania and Zimbabwe in the late 80s.

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South African History Online. (2012, March 9). ANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0076688

South African History Online (2012) 'ANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu', South African History Online, 9 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0076688 (Accessed: 21 July 2026).

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"ANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu." South African History Online, 9 Mar. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0076688. Accessed 21 July 2026.

South African History Online. "ANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu." South African History Online. March 9, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0076688.