African Oral Narratives
Military Intelligence in Apartheid-era South Africa

Part two of the first interview with Thulo Ezekiel Motseki, a gravely ill retrenched worker from Sebokeng, by Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava.

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Part one of the first interview with Thulo Ezekiel Motseki, a gravely ill retrenched worker from Sebokeng, by Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava. (September 9, 2007)
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Thulo Ezekiel Motseki, a gravely ill retrenched worker of Sebokeng, during an interview with Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava.
Thulo Ezekiel Motseki, a gravely ill retrenched worker of Sebokeng, during an interview with Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava. (2007)
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Second interview with Thulo Ezekiel Motseki, a gravely ill retrenched worker from Sebokeng, by Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava. (May 14, 2008)

Creator: McKinley, Dale
Motseki, Thulo
Veriava, Ahmed
Contributing Institutions: SAHA; MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University
Contributors: Joseph Matutoane (Translator)
Moses Moremi (Transcriber)
Biography: Forty-four years old at the time of the interview, Thulo Ezekiel Motseki was born in nearby Evaton and moved to Sebokeng at a young age. His father died when he was ten years old and he and his four siblings survived from his mother’s occasional work. Thulo achieved a Standard 7 education but then went to work in an abattoir to help out the family. In 1986 he got a job at SAMANCOR and supported his entire extended family for the next fifteen years. In the late 1990s he began to get regularly sick as a result of work conditions. His wife left him because he could not father any children due to becoming infertile from his sickness. In 2001 he was retrenched and since then his health has steadily deteriorated to the point where he now is very weak and mostly bedridden. Thulo continues to fight for compensation from his former employers. He lives in a private house with relatives.
Description: Part two of the first interview with Thulo Ezekiel Motseki, a gravely ill retrenched worker, 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 9, 2007
Location: Sebokeng, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa
Format: Audio/mp3
Language: Sotho
Rights Management: For educational use only.
Digitizer: SAHA
Source: SAHA collection AL3280

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