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Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala

Born
1930
Updated
26 Sep 2019
Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala portrait

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.
Cite this entry

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 August 2026).

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

"Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala." South African History Online, 15 Oct. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0068640. Accessed 4 Aug. 2026.

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

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