Henry Selby Msimang (13 June 1886 - 29 March 1982) was a South African political leader and activist. After attending primary school at Edendale he qualified as a teacher at Healdtown in …

2017年6月7日 · Selby Msimang was born on 13 December 1886 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. He and his elder brother, Richard Msimang,were born to Joel Msimang and his wife Joanah …

Writing as Honorary Secretary of the Organising Committee of the South African Native National Congress, Selby Msimang wrote a long piece attempting to clarify the differences that had …

His first important political involvement was in 1912, with the founding of the South African Native National Congress, later to become the African National Congress. At that time he was a clerk …

Amid this contestation and relook of South African political history, Sibongiseni Mkhize published in 2019 a political biography of Henry Selby Msimang. As Mkhize points out in the introduction, …

Such a long and diverse political career would make any person noteworthy, but Msimang was also an intellectual figure of remarkable talent - a prolific author and writer, journalist and …

2015年9月2日 · This political biography examines Henry Selby Msimang’s political career with particular focus on his background as a descendant of the Edendale’s amakholwa Christian …

2011年3月16日 · Journalist, farm manager, clerk, interpreter and political activist, Henry Selby Msimang, died on 29 March 1982 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. Msimang was a founding …

Series: African lives series ; no. 6. Contents: Introduction -- The early years of African nationalism, 1886-1921 -- Community activist and workers' leader, 1917-1921 -- The politics of race, class …

Henry Selby Msimang (1886-1982), one of the great South Africans of the twentieth century, was a founding member of the African National Congress in 1912, president of the pioneering …