PERMANENT PERSUADERS VETERANS OPEN DAY

                                
Part 1: Mobilisation, Political visions and Aspirations 1945-1958

                             SPEAKERS
Mda Mda, Fort Hare Graduate, teacher and laywer: Unity Movement activist and Advisor to King Sabata Dalindyebo.

Nothemba Fazzie, wife of PAC stalwart Cornelius Fazzie, participation in the nurses strikes in Alice in the 1950s.

Wilson Fanti, ANC activist and Stutterheim resident.

Monde Mkunqwana, East London ANC activist and Duncan Village MK.


Part 2: Mobilisation, political visions and aspirations 1959-1969

                              SPEAKERS
Archie Nkonyeni, former Unity Movement activist, civic leader and businessmen.

Keely Mtshizana, grand daughter of the struggle lawyer and political activist from Duncan village.

Salakatya Simuku, PAC activists and APLA in Butterworth and Kentani, currently living in Butterworth.

Sibongile Booi, daughter of Nomvo Booi who was active in Poqo and leader in the PAC Women's League in Exile.

Vuyani Mngaza, PAC activist and former owner of Pan African Motors in Duncan Village.

Tukela Dyantjies, ANC activists in Lovedale and Alice.


PART 1 HIGHLIGHTS

 Mda Mda  stressed the point  that as early as the 1950s, Africans who were all conquered  and subject people were still hoping that their oppressed  situation would improve but when the Nationalists 
won the elections, all was put in reverse  gear.
                                                  
 Although it became increasingly difficult for the African masses to
 fight  for their  citizenship, they soldiered on. He also highlighted that   the African elites were negotiating for the own space and not that of the masses. They negotiated for themselves basing  their argument on their education and civilised status. They did  not attack white supremacy. They also assured the apartheid government that they were not disloyal and therefore not a threat to the system.