Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala

Born: 1930
Updated: 26 Sep 2019

Summary

Clerk, Secretary of the Working Committee, ANC Sophiatown, chairman of school committees in Soweto in the 1960s, Chairman of the ANC Veterans League

Born 1930. Clerk. Lived in Alexander. Was a popular amateur boxer and lost the use of his right eye in the ring. Active in Congress since the Defiance Campaign. Secretary of the Working Committee, ANC Sophiatown. Indictment quashed in 1959. After the trial, he was chairman of school committees in Soweto in the 1960s. He was also active in the street committees and civic organisations in the 1980s, and he was Chairman of the ANC Veterans League in 1990.He now lives in Soweto.

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South African History Online. (2011, October 15). Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0068640

South African History Online (2011) 'Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala', South African History Online, 15 October. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0068640 (Accessed: 4 October 2026).

South African History Online, Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0068640, (accessed 4 October 2026).

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South African History Online. "Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala." South African History Online. October 15, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0068640.