A member of the Pan African Congress and Poqo. he was executed at Pretoria Central Prison on 30 May 1967 for the murder of Maurice Berger in Paarl, Cape Province (now Western Cape) in 1962.
Zwelidumisle Mjekula was executed at age 36,for the murder of a security guard in Port Elizabeth in June 1986.
The Makoba’s Council was described as ‘a powerful and dangerous group of tribesmen.’ Alois Mate was considered to be ‘the brains of the Council although he shrewdly refrained from openly associating himself with the movement’. In a letter from the Magistrate at Matatiele to the Chief Magistrate of the Transkeian Territories, dated 18 May 1954, the magistrate at Matatiele, complained that he [Mate] was ‘the writer of insubordinate letters to this office’ and various other offices, including the Native Affairs Department (NAD) Secretary ‘and the Minister.’
Jeremiah Moraka, a counsellor to Makwena Matlala, was banished from his residence in Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo] on 7 March 1951 to Matatiele* in the Transkei, Eastern Province [now Eastern Cape].
In 1953, his partner, Maphuti Moraka, was also banished. She refused to leave but was forced into a police van. She took a three-year old child into banishment but left the older children with an aunt. It was reported that the aunt struggled to feed and clothe the Moraka children. Another child was born in banishment.
In relating his story of banishment to Helen Joseph, Johannes Matlala said he was arrested with others and ‘driven to Pietersburg like a flock of sheep.’ Some of them were charged for murder but he was acquitted.
Soon after, he was again arrested and banished, from his original residence at Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District (now Polokwane) in the Northern Transvaal [now, Limpopo Province] on 11 June 1952 to Nthabachicha, Mount Fletcher, Eastern Province [now Eastern Cape].
Mabaso Siqila and Nikisi Feni were said to be the leaders of ‘recalcitrant Natives’ in Xengxe Location, near King William’s Town, Eastern Province [now Eastern Cape].
Maema Matlala, an old man who had served in East Africa during the First World War,was related by blood, to the royal family, was the second most senior councilor in the royal house (mošate).
Matela Mantsoe, a resident of Witzieshoek Native Reserve, Harrismith District, Orange Free State (now Free State)was described by government authorities as a ‘recalcitrant native’. Mantsoe served a two-year jail sentence in Bloemfontein. He was ordered to keep away from Witzieshoek but subsequently returned.
Mfoloe Ramokgadi was one of the six, alongside Jeremiah Rakoko Mabe, accused of various offences arising from conflict in Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District, Transvaal (now North West Province).
An order of 9 September 1949 banished Ramokgadi from Mabieskraal. This order was revoked on 14 May 1952.
At a 1953 meeting in Lusikisiki, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] betterment and the Bantu Authorities (BA) were rejected in the presence of the Paramount Chief (PC). Govan Mbeki writes in his book, The Peasants Revolt, that‘one man by the name of Mngqingo (Pikani) turned his backside to Botha Sigcau, a sign of no-confidence.
