Tag Archives: Zephaniah Mothopeng

Interview with Zephaniah Mothopeng

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Gavin Brown

What feels very current in the interview is Mothopeng’s repeated insistence that opposition to apartheid was not just about civil rights or democracy, but was fundamentally a struggle to decolonize South Africa Continue reading →

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Zephania Mothopeng in London, 1989

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Gavin Brown

Some time ago, we wrote about the rally organised in London in July 1989 at which Zephania Mothopeng, the President of the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania spoke. Thanks to friends in the Netherlands who were previously involved with the Azania … Continue reading →

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The PAC in London

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Gavin Brown

The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania has recently started a social media project to educate their members and supporters about the history of the movement and their contribution to the anti-apartheid struggle. As part of this work, they are also … Continue reading →

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Zephania Mothopeng speaks in London, July 1989

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Gavin Brown

Zephania Mothopeng was the President of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), one of the liberation movements that fought apartheid in South Africa.  Following his unconditional release from jail in South Africa in November 1988, he spent several months … Continue reading →

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Surrounding the South African Embassy (to remember the Soweto Uprising)

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Gavin Brown

To commemorate the school students’ uprising in Soweto in 1976, British youth attempted to surround the South African embassy in London on 16 June 1988 and again the following year. Young people were the backbone of the Non-Stop Picket of … Continue reading →

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Celebrating three years being non-stop against apartheid (with a powerful message)

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Gavin Brown

The third anniversary of the Non-Stop Picket of the South African embassy was celebrated by a crowd of more than six hundred people on 22 April 1989.  On this occasion, unlike the first anniversary rally in 1987, the police allowed … Continue reading →

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Campaigning to free ‘Uncle Zeph’

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Gavin Brown

To mark the 29th anniversary of the founding of the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania, on 6 April 1988, the PAC launched a petition for the release of its President Zephaniah Mothopeng.  Known affectionately as ‘Uncle Zeph’, Mothopeng was serving a … Continue reading →

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