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Obed Tseko Motshabi

Published 17 February 2011Updated 3 September 2019

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Obed Tseko Motshabi
Born: 7 February 1925 in Alexandra Township,Johannesburg,South Africa

Born in 1925, Motshabi worked as a clerk. He took part in the 1944 Alexandra Township bus boycott movement and the shantytown movement after World War II.

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