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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Contribution by Professor S. Badat on Banishment, Rhodes University, 2012. From the book, Forgotten People - Political Banishment under Apartheid by Professor S. Badat