Onkgopotse tiro biography samples

          Onkgopotse's ancestors include Marokgwe, who is mentioned in the poem, who refused to send his young boys as a regiment to assist Kgosi Moiloa.

        1. Onkgopotse's ancestors include Marokgwe, who is mentioned in the poem, who refused to send his young boys as a regiment to assist Kgosi Moiloa.
        2. The story of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro is one of the most melancholic and tragic stories in the history of South Africa's struggle for liberation.
        3. Parcel of Death recounts the little-told life story of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, the first South African freedom fighter the apartheid regime.
        4. Onkgopotse Tiro was one such person who grew up in difficult conditions and became a leader.
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          6. Parcel of Death recounts the little-told life story of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, the first South African freedom fighter the apartheid regime..

          Abram Onkgopotse Tiro

          South African activist

          Onkgopotse Tiro (9 November 1945 – 1 February 1974) was a South African student activist and black consciousness militant.

          He was born in Dinokana, a small village near Zeerust. He was expelled from the University of the North (now known as University of Limpopo) in 1972 for his political activities.

          He is the first South African freedom fighter the apartheid government pursued beyond the borders of the country to have been assassinated with a parcel bomb.².

          At university he had become an active member of the South African Student Organisation, out of which the Black Consciousness Movement grew.

          After his expulsion from the then University of the North in 1972, following his scathing critique of the Bantu Education Act of 1953, he went on to teach history at Morris Isaacson High School near and around Central Western Jabavu (CWJ) in Soweto in 1973.

          Tsietsi Mashinini, who was an integral part of the 1976 student uprising, was one the students during the time he taught at Morris Isaacson, and many of his students have recalled his impact on their own politicisation during this period of stu