Molefe Pheto

Molefe Pheto was a South African musician and music teacher who as an activist in the Black Consciouness Movement became a political prisoner in 1975. He was a friend and spokesperson of South African President Nelson Mandela. [1]

Pheto was an active participant in the Black Consciousness Movement since 1970. In 1971 he founded Mhloti, working with others such as Wally Serote, producing music, poetry, and theatrical events and performing speeches by political activists and schools, churches and political rallies.[2] He organised three Black Arts festivals for MDALI (the Music, Drama, Arts and Literature Institute in Soweto), of which he was a founder member and spokesman, and in 1975 he was detained under South Africa's 1963 Terrorism Act for 10 months.[3] He was held in Johannesburg's police headquarters, John Vorster Square.[4]

In 1983, Allison & Busby published Pheto's memoir, And Night Fell: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in South Africa.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Ghosts of South African prison tell what apartheid really meant", The Guardian
  2. ↑ John Peffer, Art and the End of Apartheid, Volume 2, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
  3. ↑ Peter O. Stummer, Christopher Balme, Fusion of Cultures?, Rodopi, 1996, p. 186.
  4. ↑ "Apartheid revisited, for a better future". Business Day Live. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  5. ↑ "Book reviews : And Night Fell: memoirs of a political prisoner in South Africa", Race & Class, October 1984, vol. 26, no. 2 103-104.
  6. ↑ Schulz, William F. (2007-05-15). The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0812219821.


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