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Pheko was galvanised by 30 years of wrongful exile along with imprisonment, and his efforts at the UN were materially instrumental to the demolition of [[apartheid]] and [[colonialism]]. He suffered imprisonment in South Africa, [[Mozambique]] and [[Rhodesia]] for his [[anti-colonial]] activities and was encouraged to struggle hard against apartheid although this was not always easy. During this time his mother Mrs E. M. Moerane was constantly interrogated and intimidated by the notorious [[South African Police|South African Secret Police]].{{fact|date=November 2007}} By all accounts she never revealed a single detail of her son's whereabouts and died in 1993, just a year before her son was finally permitted to come home to South Africa. His brother Ramaone Pheko, also a radical Pan Africanist, was killed in 1977 under circumstances which remain suspect.{{fact|date=November 2007}} Pheko and his family were denied the opportunity to bury him. |
Pheko was galvanised by 30 years of wrongful exile along with imprisonment, and his efforts at the UN were materially instrumental to the demolition of [[apartheid]] and [[colonialism]]. He suffered imprisonment in South Africa, [[Mozambique]] and [[Rhodesia]] for his [[anti-colonial]] activities and was encouraged to struggle hard against apartheid although this was not always easy. During this time his mother Mrs E. M. Moerane was constantly interrogated and intimidated by the notorious [[South African Police|South African Secret Police]].{{fact|date=November 2007}} By all accounts she never revealed a single detail of her son's whereabouts and died in 1993, just a year before her son was finally permitted to come home to South Africa. His brother Ramaone Pheko, also a radical Pan Africanist, was killed in 1977 under circumstances which remain suspect.{{fact|date=November 2007}} Pheko and his family were denied the opportunity to bury him. |
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Pheko holds a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from the [[University of South Africa]] (UNISA), where he majored in [[Political Science]], Systematic [[Theology]], [[Sociology]], and History. UNISA has honoured Pheko with an archive that holds many of his own works. Pheko also holds a [[Bachelor of Law]] degree from the [[University of Zambia]], a Master of Law degree in [[International Law]] from the [[University of London]], two Doctorates in Jurisprudence degree and Theology respectively. He is currently an [[advocate]] in the High Courts of [[High Court of South Africa|South Africa]] and Zambia]]. Most currently he serves as a member of [[Parliament of South Africa|Parliament]] and has distinguished himself as a public servant of notable integrity. In 2003 the ''Business Day'' in South Africa heralded his speech on political party floor-crossing as arguably the best of the year.{{fact|date=November 2007}} He is the longest serving PAC MP to date.{{fact|date=November 2007}} |
Pheko holds a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from the [[University of South Africa]] (UNISA), where he majored in [[Political Science]], Systematic [[Theology]], [[Sociology]], and History. UNISA has honoured Pheko with an archive that holds many of his own works. Pheko also holds a [[Bachelor of Law]] degree from the [[University of Zambia]], a Master of Law degree in [[International Law]] from the [[University of London]], two Doctorates in Jurisprudence degree and Theology respectively. The first he awarded hismneklf from his Daystar University in Kenya and the second he bought from the University of Kensington, a bosgus degree mill. He is currently an [[advocate]] in the High Courts of [[High Court of South Africa|South Africa]] and Zambia]]. Most currently he serves as a member of [[Parliament of South Africa|Parliament]] and has distinguished himself as a public servant of notable integrity. In 2003 the ''Business Day'' in South Africa heralded his speech on political party floor-crossing as arguably the best of the year.{{fact|date=November 2007}} He is the longest serving PAC MP to date.{{fact|date=November 2007}} |
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A fortcoming book on the 1960 Sharpeville massacre states: "Fifty years after Sharpeville the PAC has degenerated from a dynamic mass movement into an irrelevant mystical fascist sect that has failed to gain more than 1.2% of the national vote in the 1994, 1999, 2004 and 2009 elections. Its present leader is Letlapa Mphahlele, a psychotic murderer who ordered the slaughter of a church congregation; while his predecessor, S. E. M. Pheko, claimed two doctorates, one that he awarded himself and the other he bought from Kensington University, a bogus degree mill. Pheko’s self-published vanity entry on Wikipedia states: “Dr Pheko is considered to be one of the greatest exponents of Pan-Africanism on par with Nkrumah, du Bois, Lumumba, Sobukwe and Cabral.” The presence of these appalling specimens in the South African parliament is argument enough for raising the bar to 5% of national votes for political parties to gain seats." |
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== Published works == |
== Published works == |
Revision as of 00:41, 1 January 2010
Dr. Motsoko Pheko is a South African lawyer, author, historian, theologian, academic, and politician. Widely travelled, Pheko has visited nearly every continent promoting the message of Pan-Africanism and self-determination. Dr Pheko is considered to be one of the greatest exponents of Pan-Africanism on par with Nkrumah, du Bois, Lumumba, Sobukwe and Cabral. He has been able to advance the discourse to the 21st century context and to align with concrete living conditions of the masses.
Born to a wealthy rural family in Lesotho on 13 November 1933, Pheko and his brother went to live in South Africa in the 1930s upon the sudden death of their parents. They were raised by Mrs E. M. Moerane, their late mother's sister. Since 1960 Motsoko Pheko has been a member of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), and served in several different capacities including Organiser, Branch Chairperson, Country Representative and Member of Parliament (MP). Pheko served as a representative of the PAC to the United Nations in New York and Geneva, in addition to working in the UK, Zambia and Tanzania. Pheko was the president of the PAC in South Africa until he stepped down in 2006. Previously he was the Deputy President in three cabinets from 1995 to 2003. This is the longest presidential term in PAC history.
He and his wife escaped to exile in 1963 when Pheko skipped bail. He would undoubtedly have been imprisoned at Robben Island, had he not heeded the insistence of his seniors Sobukwe and Mothopeng that he leave.[citation needed] Pheko's wife Mrs Ntsioua Pheko followed him to Swaziland with their first child, while expecting another. Like many struggle wives of the era such as Elizabeth Sibeko, Catherine Ntloedibe, Lauretta Ngcobo, Priscilla Gumane and Winnie Mandela, she was a freedom fighter in her own right whose contribution to the struggle, although not well documented, deserves its own place in history.[citation needed] Together Dr and Mrs Pheko have raised three successful daughters, Mohau, Mamello and Lebohang.
Pheko was galvanised by 30 years of wrongful exile along with imprisonment, and his efforts at the UN were materially instrumental to the demolition of apartheid and colonialism. He suffered imprisonment in South Africa, Mozambique and Rhodesia for his anti-colonial activities and was encouraged to struggle hard against apartheid although this was not always easy. During this time his mother Mrs E. M. Moerane was constantly interrogated and intimidated by the notorious South African Secret Police.[citation needed] By all accounts she never revealed a single detail of her son's whereabouts and died in 1993, just a year before her son was finally permitted to come home to South Africa. His brother Ramaone Pheko, also a radical Pan Africanist, was killed in 1977 under circumstances which remain suspect.[citation needed] Pheko and his family were denied the opportunity to bury him.
Pheko holds a B.A. from the University of South Africa (UNISA), where he majored in Political Science, Systematic Theology, Sociology, and History. UNISA has honoured Pheko with an archive that holds many of his own works. Pheko also holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Zambia, a Master of Law degree in International Law from the University of London, two Doctorates in Jurisprudence degree and Theology respectively. The first he awarded hismneklf from his Daystar University in Kenya and the second he bought from the University of Kensington, a bosgus degree mill. He is currently an advocate in the High Courts of South Africa and Zambia]]. Most currently he serves as a member of Parliament and has distinguished himself as a public servant of notable integrity. In 2003 the Business Day in South Africa heralded his speech on political party floor-crossing as arguably the best of the year.[citation needed] He is the longest serving PAC MP to date.[citation needed]
A fortcoming book on the 1960 Sharpeville massacre states: "Fifty years after Sharpeville the PAC has degenerated from a dynamic mass movement into an irrelevant mystical fascist sect that has failed to gain more than 1.2% of the national vote in the 1994, 1999, 2004 and 2009 elections. Its present leader is Letlapa Mphahlele, a psychotic murderer who ordered the slaughter of a church congregation; while his predecessor, S. E. M. Pheko, claimed two doctorates, one that he awarded himself and the other he bought from Kensington University, a bogus degree mill. Pheko’s self-published vanity entry on Wikipedia states: “Dr Pheko is considered to be one of the greatest exponents of Pan-Africanism on par with Nkrumah, du Bois, Lumumba, Sobukwe and Cabral.” The presence of these appalling specimens in the South African parliament is argument enough for raising the bar to 5% of national votes for political parties to gain seats."
Published works
Dr. Pheko is author of several books on topics such as history, law, political science and theology, including:
- Apartheid:The Story of the Dispossessed people
- The Rise of Azania, the Fall of South Africa
- Betrayal of a Colonised People
- The early Church in Africa
Over the past 50 years Pheko has written thousands of articles, essays and discussion papers internationally on topics including conflict, human rights, social relations, African relativism, theology, African history, gender relations within African society, African women in history, political science, and many dimensions of Pan Africanism. A little known fact is that he is an excellent poet.
Pheko has worked in theological circles, persuading leading clergy and pastors of the evil that is apartheid usingliberation theology, of which he is a leading proponent in Africa.[citation needed] In the 1950s and early 1960s he was a journalist on Our Africa, an African-based magazine of the era whose aim was to inform and educate the African population on social and theological issues. The young Pheko used the platform to explore his own theories on apartheid, social dissent and African thinking, and rose to be Managing Editor by the age of 29.
While in exile he successfully ran a Christian publishing house called World Literature Crusade, of which he was the Africa Managing Director for fifteen years, and contributed significantly to the body of work on liberation theology and Christianity in the African context.[citation needed] Pheko has been a lay preacher for many years always guided by his faith and his conviction of helping to realise the United States of Africa.[citation needed]. He and his wife continued to support the liberation struggle in exile and were focal points for progressive movements not only from South Africa[Azania] but Zimbabwe[then Rhodesia], Namibia, Angola, Mozambique and Lesotho. Their home and the liberation community were a hub for discussions with future SADC Statesmen and freedom fighters such as Jonas Savimbi, Ntsu Mokhehle , Duma Nokwe and Eduardo Mondlana among others.
Dr. Pheko is the founder of Daystar University in Kenya, one of the leading universities in that region.[citation needed] Pheko is also founder and Chair of Tokoloho Development Association in South Africa, a trust which promotes research of indigenous knowledge of the African people prior to European colonisation, and publishes the results. Tokoloho is se Sotho and translates as "Freedom".