Liberation Heritage Route launched to commemorate fallen hero
Kempton Park, Tembisa Tourism Association (KTTA) launched a Liberation Heritage Route to attract tourists to the township.
On August 8, Kempton Park, Tembisa Tourism Association (KTTA) launched a Liberation Heritage Route in honour of struggle hero Brian Mbulelo Mazibuko.
Fika Mokwana, KTTA programme director, said the event was the 35th commemoration tour where the Tembisa fallen hero was remembered.
KTTA wished to share the information below, with the community:
• Brian Mazibuko was a young South African anti-apartheid activist in the 1970s.
• He grew up in the City of Ekurhuleni in Tembisa.
• Mazibuko was a Tembisa High School student leader, he became the first learner to protest against the Afrikaans language in 1973 as an ANC, UDF, COSAS and the Black Conscious Movement leader.
• He was a Tembisa Representative Student Council (TRCS) leader mentored by Dan Montsisi and Tsietsi Mashinini in the political liberation struggle.
• Mazibuko was very intelligent as a learner and he was promoted to four upper standards in two years.
• He matriculated in Robben Island.
• Mazibuko was convicted and imprisoned on Robben Island in 1977 and released in 1982.
• On August 5, 1984, Mazibuko was hacked to death by a group of unidentified people in Tembisa.
“Leaders like Figo Madlala, Timothy Mabena, Jafta Mabunda, Pat Twala and Brian Mazibuko played a leading role in those protests.
“Our goal as a tourism organisation is to preserve the history of all our fallen heroes and heroines in Kempton Park and Tembisa.
“We have identified historic attraction sites. The route will enhance and diversify tourism products by highlighting Tembisa’s key freedom fighters who were prominent during the liberation struggle,” Mokwana.
Mokwana said the route will attract local and international tourist to make them understand Kempton Park and Tembisa tourism, history, culture and heritage.
The event was attended by Ndzundza Macingwane II of Traditional Council (Isgodlo) Ndabezitha Delisa Moses Masilela, officials from the City of Ekurhuleni, Ekurhuleni Travel and Tourism Association representative chairperson Sheila Sekhitla and Moses Ndlovu.
“We would like to thank Somdaka Funeral Services for the sponsorship and Slotjhile Pub and Shisanyama for catering lunch and their warm hospitality,” said Mokwana.
