Letlapa mphahlele biography of martin
Child of This Soil - My Life as a Freedom Fighter, by Letlapa Mphahlele....
10 Letlapa Mphahlele is the only former member of the armed wing of the PAC who has published an autobiography.
Letlapa Mphahlele
Member of the National Assembly of South Africa
Letlapa Mphahlele (born 8 December 1960) is a member of the National Assembly of South Africa who represents the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania.[1] He is from Manaleng in the Limpopo Province.[1]
Exile
Mphahlele left for exile in Botswana in August 1978.
Upon his arrival, he joined the Pan Africanist Congress. As a refugee in Botswana, he was sent by the Botswana Government to the Dukwe Refugee Camp, and from there left for Tanzania, and then Guinea, where he underwent military training.
Returning to Botswana on an Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) assignment, he was expelled from the country and crossed the border to Zimbabwe, where he was detained as an illegal immigrant. After being released, he was appointed by the PAC as Chief representative to Uganda, but Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni turned down his appointment in favour of an old colleague.
He was then appointed to