African Oral Narratives
Military Intelligence in Apartheid-era South Africa

An interview with Bramage Edmond Sekete, a local community activist and traditional healer in Rammolutsi, by Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava.

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Bramage Sekete, a community liaison and translator for SAHA's Alternative History Project in Rammolutsi, engages with researcher Dale McKinley during an oral history interview.
Bramage Sekete, a community liaison and translator for SAHA's Alternative History Project in Rammolutsi, engages with researcher Dale McKinley during an oral history interview. (2007)
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Creator: McKinley, Dale
Sekete, Bramage
Veriava, Ahmed
Contributing Institutions: SAHA; MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University
Contributor: Moses Moremi (Transcriber)
Biography: In his forties at the time of the interview, Bramage Edmond Sekete was born on a nearby farm where both his parents and grand-parents worked. He left the farm school to seek work on the mines and at the age of sixteen started working at a gold mine near Potchefstroom. He worked there until 1984, when he was retrenched. Bramage subsequently worked in Potchesfstroom as a security guard for five years and then another five years at a furniture store. He came to Rammolutsi in 1995 with his family and erected a shack. He subsequently led an invasion of vacant land and has been living in a shack there since – on an allocated stand. Bramage founded the Rammolutsi Crisis Committee (RRMCC) and is active in community politics and social work. He is also a traditional healer.
Description: This interview with Bramage Edmond Sekete, a local community activist and traditional healer, was conducted by Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava in Rammolutsi in 2007 as part of the South African History Archive's Alternative History Project, titled 'Forgotten Voices in the Present'.
Date: July 29, 2007
Location: Rammolutsi, Free State, Republic of South Africa
Format: Audio/mp3
Language: English
Rights Management: For educational use only.
Digitizer: SAHA
Source: SAHA collection AL3280

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