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Francis Xiniwe Skota died in 1933. Mweli Skota was remarried, in 1938, to Zilpah Shupinyaneng, who worked as a doctor's receptionist, and was the daughter of an A.M.E. Church minister stationed at Pimville. [1] He had two sons, both by his second wife, Zilpah. The first son died in 1946. Three years later, a second son, Mjokwani Vulindlela was ...
Biographical history. Mweli Skota was a member of the Executive and General Secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1920s and 1930s. He was also a business man, religious leader and publisher. Skota was the editor of the newspaper "Abantu-Batho", founder and editor of "African Shield" and he edited and compiled the "The African ...
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Skota. Date of Birth: c 1880s. Mweli Skota was born in Kimberley in the 1880s and attended school there. He worked at various times as a clerk, journalist, court interpreter, and independent businessman. He was one of the founders of the ANC newspaper, Abantu-Batho, and served as its editor in the late 1920s. He failed at two other attempts to ...
Trevor Dundas Mweli Skota (died 1933) worked as a clerk, journalist, ANC secretary-general, court interpreter, and independent businessman. Early life His family is originally from the Eastern Cape and his father, Boyce Skota, was of Hlubi royal descent. In 1866, Boyce who was then in his teens, converted to Christianity.
The importance of T. D. Mweli Skota in the cultural history of South Africa in the twentieth-century is not as yet full recognized or acknowledged. The founding of the Skotaville Publishers in honor of the great man by Mothobi Mutloatse following the Soweto Uprising of 1976 is part of this recognition.
Feb 26, 2024 · Mweli Skota was a member of the Executive and General Secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1920s and 1930s. He was also a business man, religious leader and publisher. Skota was the editor of the newspaper "Abantu-Batho", founder and editor of "African Shield" and he edited and compiled the "The African Yearly Register".
Apr 24, 2022 · TD Mweli Skota, the former ANC general secretary and prominent journalist and publisher, included Mphahlele in his African Yearly Register (described as a “Who’s Who of Black Folks in Africa”). Skota wrote that Mphahlele, “who is related to the late Chief Mphahlele of Mphahlelestad”, was “a good composer of music and a gifted poet”.
