"I don't only play for myself...it's about everyone in South Africa" ๐ฟ๐ฆ
Watch Mbekezeli Mbokazi's episode of Breakaway pres. by @ATT: https://t.co/GPRb5EGvLr
Mbuyisa Makhubo disappeared in 1979. He rose to prominence after he was seen carrying Hector Pieterson in a photograph taken by Sam Nzima after Pieterson was shot during the Soweto uprising of June 16, 1976. After the photograph was released, Makhubo was harassed by the security services & was forced to flee South Africa. His mother last heard from him when he was in Nigeria & never heard from him again.
This day, half a century ago, I was freezing in the Kgoahlampa Mountains (Drakensberg). It was the season of koma (initiation). So powerful was the Soweto volcanic student uprising that we felt its shock waves in the mountains. Two years later, I followed Mashinini&co into exile.