---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ezrom Mokgakala <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:16:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Fw: MR PK LEBALLO To: [email protected]
Ezrom Serame Mokgakala --- On Tue, 4/28/09, Thami Ka-Caleni <[email protected]> wrote: From: Thami Ka-Caleni <[email protected]> Subject: MR PK LEBALLO To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 2:57 PM The Journal of Modern African Studies (1991), 29:413-442 Cambridge University Press Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991 doi:10.1017/S0022278X00000586 Articles Potlako Leballo – the Man Who Hurried to Meet his Destiny Joel Bolnicka1* a1 Senior Researcher, Southern African Catholic Council for Social Service Housing, Cape Town Article author query bolnick j This is an account of the early life of a widely regarded hero of resistance in South Africa who constantly betrayed the absurdity, the hypocrisy, and the staggering human frailty of the modern leader. In later years Potlako Kitchener Leballo also gained renown as a mesmerising orator who lived to dramatise, to command the centre of attention, to captivate listeners with impassioned stories. Having grown up in a world of oral culture it is not surprising that he expressed himself best in the spoken rather than the written word. Leballo's autobiographical sketches, which have been recorded piecemeal by numerous authors, are festooned with exaggerations, illusions, and ambiguities. However, he was an intelligent fabricator of information, with a talent for fitting a story into its appropriate context. This alone makes him an exciting subject for a biography, since the reconstruction of his life and its links to the social structure provide stiff tests for the sleuthing and analytical skills of the researcher. Footnotes * Under the auspices of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference, Pretoria. Potlako roughly translates as ‘One who is in a hurry’, Leballo as ‘Destiny’ -- “I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.” Sankara --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Groups "Pan Africanist Youth Congress of Azania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.geocities.com/paycoonline //panafricanist.blogspot.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
