Louis Leo Mtshizana

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In summary: attorney, Member of the African National Congress, African National Congress Youth League, Society for Young Africa, Cape African Teachers Association, the South African Students Organisation, South African Rugby Board, the East London Yout

First name
Louis
Last name
Mtshizana
Date of birth
19 May 1925
Date of death
c 2003

Louis Leo Mtshizana was born in 1930. When Mtshizana was in Form 5 at Lovedale, after doing a study of Charles Dickens and reading Oliver Twist in English class, he wrote a note that was pinned to the school notice board:

“The present system has deprived (the student) of his liberty as a scholar. It has thrown darkness into the channels of understanding. It has caused him to rise up as a pure radical... That man has been born free does not only apply to the 18th and 19th centuries.”(Mtshizana in Kros, 2002: 62)

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