African Oral Narratives
Military Intelligence in Apartheid-era South Africa

An interview with Bafana Ezekiel Makhanya, a retrenched SAMANCOR worker and community activist of Sebokeng, by Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava.

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Bafana Makhanya, retrenched SAMANCOR worker and community activist of Sebokeng, during an interview with Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava.
Bafana Makhanya, retrenched SAMANCOR worker and community activist of Sebokeng, during an interview with Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava. (2007)
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Creator: Makhanya, Bafana
McKinley, Dale
Veriava, Ahmed
Contributing Institutions: SAHA; MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University
Contributors: Lawrence Ntuli (Translator)
Moses Moremi (Transcriber)
Biography: Forty-four years old at the time of the interview, Bafana Ezekiel Makhanya was born and raised in rural Kwa-Zulu Natal and moved to Thokoza at the age of fifteen to start school and live with his father. He is the youngest of fourteen children, five of whom have passed away. He moved to Sebokeng in 1980 and achieved a Form 2 education. He became a political activist in the early 1980s and then got a job at SAMANCOR in 1984, where he worked until being retrenched in 2001. He has been unemployed since then. Bafana helped found the SAMANCOR Retrenched Workers Crisis Committee (SRWCC) and remains one of its key leaders as well as a community activist. He lives in a small private house with his family.
Description: This interview with Bafana Ezekiel Makhanya, a retrenched SAMANCOR worker and community activist, was conducted by Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava in Sebokeng in 2007 as part of the South African History Archive's Alternative History Project, titled 'Forgotten Voices in the Present'.
Date: September 14, 2007
Location: Sebokeng, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa
Format: Audio/mp3
Language: Zulu
Rights Management: For educational use only.
Digitizer: SAHA
Source: SAHA collection AL3280

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