S. Mac Lepolesa

Born: 1927
Updated: 2 Oct 2019

Summary

trader and national ANC deputy-speaker

As a trader in the Orange Free State in the 1940s, he organized for the African National Congress (ANC) and served as the national ANC deputy-speaker. He was a member of the Africans' Claims committee. In the late 1950s he left South Africa and settled in Basutoland (now Lesotho), where he became active in the Marematlou Freedom Party.

How we know this

01• Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977). From Protest to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 - 1964. Hoover Institution Pres: Stanford University.

Last updated · 2 Oct 2019

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South African History Online. (2019, September 2). S. Mac Lepolesa. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0149489

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