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SOWETO student leader TSIETSI MASHININI was given asylum in Monrovia after the uprising in Dozens of other South African students were given.

Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (May 9, - September 25, ) was a South African apartheid detainee, the mother of political figure Tsietsi Mashinini.

Tsietsi Mashinini was a staunch Christian and a prominent leader within the Methodist Church.

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Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, , in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Transkei.

Tsietsi Mashinini was a staunch Christian and a prominent leader within the Methodist Church....

Teboho MacDonald Mashinini

Student leader of the Soweto Uprising

Teboho "Tsietsi" MacDonald Mashinini (born 27 January 1957 – 1990) born in Jabavu, Soweto, South Africa, died in the summer of 1990 in Conakry, Guinea, and buried in Avalon Cemetery, was the main student leader of the Soweto Uprising that began in Soweto and spread across South Africa in June, 1976.

Life

Teboho Tsietsi Mashinini known by his pet name "Mcdonald" was born in 1957, 27 January. He was the second of 13 children of Ramothibe (father) and Nomkhitha Virginia (mother) Mashinini. He was a bright, popular and successful student at Morris Isaacson High School^[1] in Soweto where he was the head of the debate team and president of the Methodist Wesley Guild.

A move by South Africa's apartheid government to make the language Afrikaans an equal mandatory language of education for all South Africans in conjunction with English was extremely unpopular with black and English-speaking South African