African National Congress branch chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the Treason Trial. He was born in Natal in 1918, began taking an interest in political affairs at an early age, and joined the ANC in 1945. During the Defiance Campaign he chaired a welfare committee assisting volunteers from Alexandra. He was the proprietor of a general dealer's store in Alexandra, and in the 1950s he led a group called the Alexandra Traders' Association. He was a defendant for the full length of the trial.
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Biography record
Mangisi Pheneas Nene
- Born
- Mangisi Pheneas Nene 1918
- Updated
- 23 Aug 2019
South African History Online. (2011, September 21). Mangisi Pheneas Nene. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/zu/ref/B-0068235
South African History Online (2011) 'Mangisi Pheneas Nene', South African History Online, 21 September. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/zu/ref/B-0068235 (Accessed: 31 July 2026).
South African History Online, Mangisi Pheneas Nene [website], https://sahistory.org.za/zu/ref/B-0068235, (accessed 31 July 2026).
"Mangisi Pheneas Nene." South African History Online, 21 Sept. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/zu/ref/B-0068235. Accessed 31 July 2026.
South African History Online. "Mangisi Pheneas Nene." South African History Online. September 21, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/zu/ref/B-0068235.
Further reading
Place
Cape St Francis, Western Cape Peninsula
Manuel Perestrelo visited Cape St Francis in 1575 and named it 'Bahia de Sao Francisco'.
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