Bongani gumede biography books

The Man Who Founded the ANC, by Bongani Ngqulunga, brings the remarkable life of Pixley ka Isaka Seme, an extraordinary South African, back to public consciousness.

Bongani Ngqulunga  

The death of Pixley ka Isaka Seme on Thursday morning, 7 June 1951, at his legal practice in central Johannesburg came as a shock to black people in South Africa and neighbouring territories.

Although Seme was close to seventy, his death took everybody by surprise, including his wife, Princess Phikisile, the eldest daughter of Dinuzulu ka Cetshwayo. When her husband died, she and their three children were not in Johannesburg; they had relocated to Mahhashini in the Nongoma district of Natal, where she had built a home not far from the royal homestead of Cyprian ka