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(19**-1972) Dramatist and martyred Black Consciousness activist. A student activist at the University of Zululand, he became vice-president of the [[Black People's Convention]], and in 1972 attended the [[TECON]]/[[SABTU]] festival in Durban. Expelled from UniZulu, he died when pushed under a train by a white official on his way to the [[SABTU]] festival in Cape Town.  *** Writer of ''[[Shanti]]'' (performed 1973, published 1981) perhaps one of the best known plays in the Black Consciousness repertoire. 

== Sources == 
See Gosher, 1988; Kruger, 199* [TH, JH]

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