Sekgopela Mashile supported his older brother’s, Matsiketsane Mashile, recognition as a Chief and voiced opposition to the manner in which tribal authorities had been demarcated.
Sekgopela “Winias “Mashile, from Native Trust Farm Ludlow, Pilgrim’s Rest District, Transvaal [Mpumalanga]was banished to the Binfield Park Native Trust Farm, Victoria East District, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] on 27 June 1963.
He was allowed to return home in 1974 and his banishment order was withdrawn on 24 February 1975 because he enjoyed “the trust of the [Chief] and his Cabinet in Lebowa [in today’s Limpopo Province].” However, the Native Commissioner still saw Sekgopela Mashile ‘as a threat to public order’, (and he) was immediately placed under house arrest.
In 1978, while still formally under arrest, he successfully ran for the Lebowa Legislative Assembly.
Sekgopela Mashile supported his older brother’s, Matsiketsane Mashile, recognition as a Chief and voiced opposition to the manner in which tribal authorities had been demarcated.
Sekgopela “Winias “Mashile, from Native Trust Farm Ludlow, Pilgrim’s Rest District, Transvaal [Mpumalanga]was banished to the Binfield Park Native Trust Farm, Victoria East District, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] on 27 June 1963.
He was allowed to return home in 1974 and his banishment order was withdrawn on 24 February 1975 because he enjoyed “the trust of the [Chief] and his Cabinet in Lebowa [in today’s Limpopo Province].” However, the Native Commissioner still saw Sekgopela Mashile ‘as a threat to public order’, (and he) was immediately placed under house arrest.
In 1978, while still formally under arrest, he successfully ran for the Lebowa Legislative Assembly.