Mzala

This is not to say that Mzala never wrote for a wider audience, or never studied other struggles, but his positions and perspectives were always rooted in the collective of the South African liberation movement.

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The biographical information is derived from Eddy Maloka's moving tribute, "Mzala: a revolutionary without kid gloves", The African

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Mzala attended the University of Natal (Ngoye), where he studied law and he was active in the South African Student Organisation (SASO).

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Mzala did not spend some two years of his life writing a book on this topic simply so he could put another publication down on his CV.

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During his time in London he published (as Mzala) a book, "Gatsha Buthelezi, Chief with a Double Agenda" (Zed Books, 1988).

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In the last years of his life Mzala also devoted considerable energy to engaging with the "national question" in the South African struggle.

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No wonder Buthelezi banned it outright in KwaZulu - thus confirming the very point Mzala was making: Buthelezi was no democrat.

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Mzala was one of the leaders of the ANC delegation to the International Youth Festival in Cuba in 1978.

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Mzala attended school at Louwsburg, then Bethal College in Butterworth, and he matriculated in KwaDlangezwa in Empangeni.

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But, Mzala clearly saw warning signs in the 1980s, and it would not be wrong to see them now again in the present.

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