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| Affiliation | Pan Africanist Congress of Azania |
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| Name | Clarence Makwetu |
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Hoyita, , South Africa |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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December 06, 1928
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| Died | April 01, 2016
(87 years)
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| Contributor | 411 Name Removed |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Sep 03, 2022 09:52pm |
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| Info | Former President of the Pan�Africanist Congress
Early Life
Clarence Makwetu was born in Hoyita, in the Cofimvaba district, Transkei. He was the second of five children of Minah and Gqongo Makwetu. After passing Standard Four at the local school he moved to Keilands Mission in the Stutterheim district where he completed Standards 5 and 6. From 1943 �1945 he attended a local school in Queenstown, studying for his Junior certificate. In 1946 he went to Lovedale near Alice for his matriculation.
Political Career
Makwetu was drawn into the political struggle by the Defiance Campaign of 1952 organised by the African National Congress. He joined the African National youth League in 1954. He was part of the breakaway faction from the ANC which form the Pan Africanist Congress in March 1959. Makwetu supported the breakaway faction because of its commitment to restore the to its rightful owners, the African people. Makwetu as PAC branch secretary at Langa, New flats was instrumental in leading the marchers on Defiance Campaign for having to carry their passes. After the declaration of a State of Emergency on March 30 1960, Makwetu was detained from March to August 1960 and the PAC was banned. In August 1961 he was arrested in Cape Town and escorted to Transkei where he was again detained from September 1961 to February 1962. He was released and returned to Cape Town, but was arrested and sent back to Cofimvaba. He was charged in April 1963 for furthering the aims of the PAC. He was tried at Engcobo, Transkei, and sentenced to Five years imprisonment. On his way to Robben Island he was taken to Stellenbosch to face further charges but was acquitted.
In 1986 Makwetu was released from Robben Island and was taken back to Transkei where he was restricted for two years until 1970. He found employment near Qamata as a clerk with a building firm earning R39 a month. He obtained a plot of land linked to an irrigation scheme and began crop farming. In June 1976 Makwetu was detained without trial and released in May 1977. He was arrested in July 1977 by the security police in Queenstown and was taken to Pietermaritzburg, Natal until his release in November 1977. He was also arrested by the Transkei Police in July 1979 and detained until October of the same year. In December 1989 he was elected leader of the Pan-Africanist Movement.
After 1990, following the unbanning of the PAC on 2 February 1990, Makwetu was elected President at the party�s congress on I December 1990. In February 1991 Makwetu and Nelson Mandela addressed the Harare Meeting of the Frontline states, the Organisation of African Unity and Liberation movements. During 1991 Makwetu held talks with the ANC and the Azanian Peoples Organisation (Azapo) in an attempt to forge a patriotic front in order to unite the liberation movements. Makwetu was one of the three PAC members in parliament after 1994 election. In May 1997 while still President of the PAC, he was expelled from the party for bringing the party in disrepute. Division emerged within the PAC with those calling for more vibrant leader outnumbering Makwetu�supporters. He subsequently lost his position in parliament to Stanley Mogoba, who was elected party president in 1996. Makwetu is married to Mandisa and the have two sons. They live in Cofimvaba, near Queenstown.
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