Mangaliso Patrick Mkhatshwa

Updated: 2 Oct 2019

Summary

Catholic priest, political prisoner, banned and house arrest under the Internal Security Act.

Mangaliso Patrick Mkhatshwa, a Catholic priest, was restricted to Pretoria under the Internal Security Act. Mkhatshwa was detained from August to December 1976, when he was the secretary of South African Bishops Conference, as well as the newly appointed secretary of the Black Peoples Convention (BPC) Department of Urban and Rural Development. Upon being unbanned, Mkhatshwa was placed under house arrest, from 6pm to 6am, at his Mabopane East, Pretoria home. He was detained under the same act from October 1977 to March 1978. In September 1978, he was granted permission to attend a conference in Lesotho of inter-territorial meeting of Bishops in Southern Africa, of which he was General Secretary.

State record

Banning order

Order: Act No. 44 of 1950 Sec. 9 (1)<br><em>Issued Period(s)</em> [4 June 1977 to 30/4/1982]

How we know this

01• https://blogs.24.com/devilsadvocate22/2010/02/04/remember-this-see-if-your-name-is-not-here/

Last updated · 2 Oct 2019

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South African History Online. (2019, August 22). Mangaliso Patrick Mkhatshwa. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0148027

South African History Online (2019) 'Mangaliso Patrick Mkhatshwa', South African History Online, 22 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0148027 (Accessed: 28 August 2026).

South African History Online, Mangaliso Patrick Mkhatshwa [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0148027, (accessed 28 August 2026).

"Mangaliso Patrick Mkhatshwa." South African History Online, 22 Aug. 2019, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0148027. Accessed 28 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "Mangaliso Patrick Mkhatshwa." South African History Online. August 22, 2019. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0148027.