Maqashu Leonard Mdingi
Leonard Maqhatshu Mdingi was born on 2 February1926. He grew up at his family homesteads first near Bizana, and then in Amadiba Location towards the coast in the Eastern Cape. As a young man in 1950s, he worked for a few years as a migrant worker on the sugar fields in Natal and in the mines in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng).
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