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Mr Thomas Mapikela grave

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DeclarationType: 

GazetteNo: 

39860

Gazette Date: 

Friday, March 18, 2016

NoticeNo: 

366

Notice Date: 

Friday, March 18, 2016

Gazette Notice Status: 

  • Current

GazetteFile: 

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ShortDescription: 

The Grave of Mr Thomas Mapikela, located in the Hereo’s Acre in Phahameng Cemetry,
Bloemfontein

FullDescription: 

The graves of the iconic leaders of the liberation struggle movements are a tangible
representation of the intangible heritage aspects of organised resistance and defiance
campaigns, against successive racially repressive regimes. They transcend different
responses to eighty (80) years of intensification of repressive laws from deputations, passive
resistance, defiance campaigns to armed struggle and mass struggles. They represent a
conviction to a just political cause and attainment of political freedom leading to denial of
personal liberties and an ultimate price of banning orders, house arrest, political
assassinations, banishment, exile, political imprisonment and in-detention death.
THOMAS MTOBI MAPIKELA – Founding Father of the African National Congress in 1912
(Political icon, tireless campaigner for African civic representation, craftsman, builder and
businessman and symbol of resilience and unity)
In 1909 he was a member of the South African Native Convention deputation to London,
England, which tried unsuccessfully to persuade the British parliament to reject the draft
constitution. He was elected as a speaker of the South African Native Convention, at the
founding Convention in January 1912 a position he held until 1940. He was part of a
delegation that went to the Minister of Native Affairs and protested against the impending
Native Land Act. He further went to persuade the British King and parliament as apart of a
delegation to reconsider the Native Land Act accepted by Parliament in 1913.
Mapikela was one of the organizers of All-African Convention held in 1935, to oppose the
second Hertzog Bills and the removal of Africans in the Cape from the Common Voters roll.
In 1937 he was elected to serve in the Native Representative Council. Two years before his
death in 1943 he was a member of the African Atlantic Charter Committee, which had to
study, and discuss problems arising out of the Atlantic Charter in so far as it related to Africa.

 
 

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