Mxolisi Mgxashe

Born: 1944
Died: 21 July 2013
Updated: 21 Jul 2026

Summary

Writer, author, journalist, Robben Island prisoner, exiled person and member of the PAC.

Mxolisi “Bra Ace” Mgxashe was born in 1944. He joined the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in Cape Town in the 1960s and took part in the march, in Cape Town’s Langa Township on 21 March 1960, where the police shot and killed three people and many others were wounded.

How we know this

01• Bennie Bunsee. (2013). Ace Mgxashe leaves behind a broken PAC from Cape Time, 24 July. Available at www.iol.co.za online. Accessed on 18 October 2013 • Fisher R. (2013 ). Hamba kahle, Bra Ace 29 July from the Daily Maverick. Available at www.dailymaverick.co.za online. Accessed 18 October 2013

Last updated · 21 Jul 2026

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South African History Online. (2019, September 2). Mxolisi Mgxashe. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0149228

South African History Online (2019) 'Mxolisi Mgxashe', South African History Online, 2 September. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0149228 (Accessed: 21 August 2026).

South African History Online, Mxolisi Mgxashe [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0149228, (accessed 21 August 2026).

"Mxolisi Mgxashe." South African History Online, 2 Sept. 2019, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0149228. Accessed 21 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "Mxolisi Mgxashe." South African History Online. September 2, 2019. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0149228.