EXCERPT | Worse still, the ANC provincial conference was traditionally opened with a speech from the (white) mayor, whose speeches ‘sounded patronising and insincere’. JacanaMedia
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His beloved, Dinah Mnyazi, was, however, from a wealthy home and when the Mxokozeli family delegation approached Dinah’s father to ask him to consent to the marriage of Mxokozeli and Dinah, Dinah’s father sent them away empty-handed. They were, for him, too poor. Mxokozeli was not one to give up easily and he persisted until Dinah’s father eventually consented.
His father was rarely home, for, as a policeman, he was posted all over the Transkei to a variety of rural police stations. Raymond and his mother formed a bond of great affection, and, unlike the common gender-defined roles of the time, he was happy to be with her, working in the kitchen if that was what was required to be near her.
“Our membership was not big, not more than twenty members”, and the Association did not survive their dispersion into the wider world. But it was Raymond’s political blooding. ‘I was employed at the Nannucci Drycleaning and Launderers within a week of arriving at PE,’ remembers Mhlaba. ‘The workforce at Nannucci was made up predominantly of coloured women’ and they immediately recruited the 22-year-old Raymond into the Non-European Laundry Workers Union .
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