Philip Kgosana

Philip Ata Kgosana (Born in now Makapanstad, North West, South Africa 12 October 1936 – 19 April 2017)[1] was a leader of the Pan Africanist Congress in South Africa, and was known for leading a march at the age of 23 on 30 March 1960, where 30,000 protestors opposing the country's pass laws marched from Langa to Cape Town, in one of the largest anti-apartheid demonstrations to take place in Cape Town.[2][3]

Philip Kgosana leading an anti-pass march in Cape Town on 30 March 1960

He died of cancer on 19 April 2017.[4] A section of the M3 expressway into Cape Town was renamed Philip Kgosana Drive in his honour, as this formed part of his 1960 march. It was formerly known as De Waal Drive, after Nicolaas Frederic de Waal, the former Administrator of the Cape Province who initiated its construction in the early 1900s.[5]

References
  1. "Former PAC leader Philip Kgosana dies". News24. 20 April 2017.
  2. "Philip Ata Kgosana". South African History Online. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  3. Heard, Tony (21 April 2017). "Philip Kgosana: The meaning of his courage today". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  4. Moatshe, Rapula (21 April 2017). "PAC mourns death of anti-pass hero Kgosana". IOL.
  5. Petersen, Tammy (25 August 2017). "Cape Town's De Waal Drive renamed in honour of Philip Kgosana". news24.


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