Tsietsi mashinini biography of william shakespeare

Tsietsi mashinini biography of william shakespeare: Teboho Tsietsi Mashinini, the leader of

EBOHO Tsietsi Mashinini, the leader of the Soweto student uprising, was a charismatic and theatrical character, whose love of literature prompted a classmate to call him "Shakespeare's friend in Africa". Yet he was far from a bookish dullard. A softball and karate fiend, he was a real 70s stylista, who wore an Afro, bell-bottoms and peace signs. Girls adored him, and later in life he married a former Miss Liberia.

On June 13 at a meeting of hundreds of students at the DOCC, Mashinini suggested they have a mass demonstration to protest against the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in schools. He came up with a date: June 16, the day students were supposed to write exams. For the next two days the committee rallied support. The final planning meeting was on the afternoon of June 15 where a strategy was worked out for the march: there was a set time for each school to join it before meeting up at Orlando Stadium.

Mashinini left the students with a warning: "Stay disciplined, no violence" - then went home to make banners: "Away with Afrikaans", "Away with Bantu Education". At school the next morning - June 16 - Mashinini whispered to his friend Murphy Morobe: "The main thing is not to provoke the police. We have to keep telling everyone to be disciplined, that we're marching to a particular place and then we'll disperse.