Synopsis
trader and national ANC deputy-speaker
First name
S. Mac
Last name
Lepolesa
Date of birth
1927
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.