Anton Lembede

Date: 30 July, 1947

Anton (Anthony) Muziwakhe Lembede, teacher, lawyer, politician, and principal architect of Africanism in South Africa, died suddenly in Johannesburg at the age of 33. In 1944 Lembede became the first president of the African National Congress Youth League. His ideas about Africanism formed the basis of the political philosophy of the Pan Africanist Congress. At time of his death, Lembede was pursuing his doctoral studies at the University of South Africa.

Source:

Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC.