THE MIRIAM TLALI READING & BOOK CLUB
INVITES YOU
To A Book Discussion
PHELI-THE NARRATIVE HISTORY
75th Anniversary of the Atteridgeville
Author:
Mr Magashe Titus Mafolo
Date:
Saturday, 25 July 2015
Time:
14H00 – 16H00
Venue:
Museum Africa, Newtown Cultural Precinct, 121 Bree Street, Newtown
Books will be available for sale at the event: cash only.
Enquiries: The wRite associates, 011 791 3585 or info@writeassociates.co.za
Author’s profile
Magashe Titus Mafolo was born in Sekhukhune in Limpopo in January 1956. At
four years old he went to stay in Atteridgeville with his family. He went to the
local Lower Primary School, Seaparankwe and then to the Higher Primary School,
Walton Jameson School. He did his Matric at Hofmeyr High School. He was one
of the Student leaders of 1976 and since then became an anti-apartheid activist
until Freedom in 1994. He has been detained many times, harassed, tortured and
banned by the apartheid regime. He trained as a Journalist and, among others,
edited the Tshwane-based community newspaper, The Eye, and was one of the
media workers who started what became known as ‘Alternative Media’, in the
late 1970s and early 1980s.
Mafolo was a National Executive Member and also worked fulltime for the United
Democratic Front. He has worked in numerous publications, but mainly those
in the UDF and ANC. In 1994 Mafolo became a Member of Parliament and
Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Housing. From 1998 to 2008 he was
Advisor to President Mbeki and his chief Speech Writer. Mafolo is currently doing
consulting work. He is married with three sons and one daughter.