Oral interview, conducted in Mafeteng, with Ashby Peter Solomzi "A. P." Mda (1916-1993) who grew up in the Herschel district of the Transkei. He was prominent among the founders of the ANC Youth League in 1943-44, and served as its president after the death of Anton Lembede in 1947. He opposed the influence of the Communist Party and became a partisan of the Africanist movement within the ANC. He worked as a teacher while qualifying as a lawyer. Avoiding a police dragnet in April 1963, he fled to Basutoland (later Lesotho), where he established a law practice in Mafeteng.
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Interview with Ashby Peter Solomzi Mda
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- April 1973
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019
South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Interview with Ashby Peter Solomzi Mda. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/zu/ref/R-0114210
South African History Online (2016) 'Interview with Ashby Peter Solomzi Mda', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/zu/ref/R-0114210 (Accessed: 26 July 2026).
South African History Online, Interview with Ashby Peter Solomzi Mda [website], https://sahistory.org.za/zu/ref/R-0114210, (accessed 26 July 2026).
"Interview with Ashby Peter Solomzi Mda." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/zu/ref/R-0114210. Accessed 26 July 2026.
South African History Online. "Interview with Ashby Peter Solomzi Mda." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/zu/ref/R-0114210.
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