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Mpanza, James
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- Sofasonke (alias)
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15 May 1889 - 23 September 1970
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Community leader. Founder and leader from the mid-1940's of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, Johannesburg. He was jailed for murder in 1914 and he spent thirteen years in prison. During his imprisonment he experienced a Christian conversion and became a preacher to his fellow prisoners, he later wrote a short book, The Battles of the Christian's Pathway. After his release in 1927 he became a teacher in Pretoria then later moved to Johannesburg. He was given the nickname "Sofasonke" meaning "we shall all die" in 1944 when he led a thousands of Africans, overflowing from the slums of Orlando, to set up a huge shantytown on the veld.
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ZA-COM-09638
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Modified on 2021-06-29, by Phetlhu, Ogone.