Mendi msimang biography of martin

Mendi Msimang - 8 December 1928 - 3 December 2018

3 December 2018  

The Msimang family is saddened to announce the passing of our beloved father and struggle stalwart Mendi Msimang in the early hours of Monday the 3^rd of December 2018 at a hospital in Pretoria.

At the time of his passing he was surrounded by his family.

Cde Mendi Msimang had an illustrious life. He is remembered among other things for his activism together with Comrades such as Thomas Nkobi, at the University of Roma in Lesotho then called  Pope Pius the 12^th.

He worked in the law and real estate firms of Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, and was a dedicated activist during the turbulent 1950s decade that saw the launch of the Defiance Campaign, the holding of the Congress of the People which drew up the Freedom Charter  and the arrest of 156 activists who were charged  with treason and later acquitted.

Cde Msimang left South Africa in 1960 to join the