Mzala Nxumalo

Mzala Nxumalo
Born	Jabulani Nobleman Nxumalo (1955-10-27)27 October 1955 Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal
Died	London
Other names	Mzala
Occupation	Anti-apartheid activist
Spouses	Mpho Nxumalo
Children	Zwide Nxumalo and Balindelwe Nxumalo

Mzala Nxumalo (27 October 1955), in [[Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal] – 29 February 1991, in London), was a South African intellectual and anti-apartheid activist.

Life

Nxumalo was schooled in Louwsburg and then Bethal College in Butterworth and matriculated in KwaDlangezwa in Empangeni.. He then studied at the University of Zululand after which he went into exile where he became a full time political activists living in Swaziland, Mozambique, Tanzania, Angola and the United Kingdom. He died in London.

Political activism

Nxumalo was expelled from two schools for political activism, and was detained without train at the age of 15 after organising a school boycott. He joined the South African Students Organisation at university. After the Soweto uprising in 1976 he had to flee the country and he joined the African National Congress, uMkhonto we Sizwe and the South African Communist Party in exile. He worked as an underground operative and military leader and became a major intellectual in the anti-apartheid movement. Mangosuthu Buthelezi repeatedly tried to have Nxumalo's 1988 book Gatsha Buthelezi: chief with a double agenda removed from circulation.

Works

Gatsha Buthelezi: chief with a double agenda (Zed Book:London,1988)

Personal life

Nxumalo was married to Mpho Nxumalo, and they had two children, Zide and Balindelwe.

See also

• South African Communist Party
• uMkhonto we Sizwe