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Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata

Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata portrait

Updated
20 Jul 2026
Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata portrait

Summary

banished person
Documentation related to Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata’s banishment alleges that 10 years of community conflict in the districts of Estcourt and Weenen, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), culminated in a fight in which 23 people were killed. A commission of enquiry blamed Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata of the Mtembu community for not attempting to prevent the conflict. He was banished to Location No.6, Alfred District, Natal on 24 November 1949. This order was withdrawnon 11 June 1960.

How we know this

  1. 01Contribution by Professor S. Badat on Banishment, Rhodes University, 2012. From the book, Forgotten People - Political Banishment under Apartheid by Professor S. Badat.

Last updated · 20 Jul 2026

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2012, October 11). Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/B-0093805

South African History Online (2012) 'Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata', South African History Online, 11 October. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/B-0093805 (Accessed: 23 July 2026).

South African History Online, Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata [website], https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/B-0093805, (accessed 23 July 2026).

"Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata." South African History Online, 11 Oct. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/B-0093805. Accessed 23 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata." South African History Online. October 11, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/B-0093805.

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