PAC veteran Molotsi succumbs to long illness July 22 2010 ,
11:28:00 Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) veteran Peter Molotsi (81), died yesterday following a long illness, the party said. Molotsi had been one of only two remaining members of the original national executive committee when the party was founded in 1959, PAC spokesperson Lehlohonolo Shale said today. He had occupied the post of secretary for pan African affairs under party president Robert Sobukwe. Shale said Molotsi, who was born in Kroonstad, had been a 'revolutionary intellectual'. He worked as a journalist on Bantu World, later re-titled the World, after leaving school. He became an office-bearer in the African National Congress Youth League, participated in the Defiance Campaign, and served a spell in jail after being convicted under anti-communist legislation. Molotsi was one of a trio of PAC leaders who left South Africa in 1960, after the party was banned, to organise the PAC in exile and set up headquarters in Dar-es Salaam. He later became the PAC representative in the United States and at the United Nations. He completed a doctorate and lectured at various universities in the US. Shale said that Molotsi died at his Kroonstad home. Funeral arrangements have not been finalised, he said.-Sapa -- Sending your posting to payco@googlegroups.com Unsubscribe by sending an email to payco-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com You can also visit http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.mayihlome.wordpress.com
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