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 18^th and 19^th centuries.”(Mtshizana in Kros, 2002: 62)