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 1907. He became a court interpreter in 1908 and then worked as a postmaster in Krugersdorp. In 1913 became the secretary of the anti-Natives Land Act committee.

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 Radebe. Joel Msimang was a well-known African preacher who founded the Independent Methodist Church.

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 emerged between the ANC delegation in London to appeal to the British government to annul the Natives' Land Act and the Aborigines Protection Society, which was ...

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 in the Johannesburg office of Advocate Pixley Ka Isaka Seme, recently qualified overseas and the inspiration behind the first ANC conference.

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, Msimang was a founding member of the ANC in 1912, which was followed by extensive involvement in South African politics and public life for seven decades.

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 public debater - and a man, who despite great trials and tribulations, did not compromise his principles and fundamental values, his commitment to the struggle ...

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 middle class, his struggles against land dispossession, his trade unionism, class consciousness, nationalism, liberalism, ambivalent ‘native representation’, anti ...

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 member of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), renamed the African National Congress (ANC) in 1923.

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 and gender in Johannesburg, 1922-1936 -- 'Native representative,' 1936-1951 -- African economic emancipation, 1930s-1950s -- Relations between Africans and Indians in Natal -- The ANC's Programme of ...

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 Industrial and Commercial Workers Union in the 1920s-1930s, general secretary of the All African Convention in the 1930s, a member of the Natives Representative ...