Special Report Transcript Episode 41, Section 6, Time 20:10

It is very important for this event to be placed in history because it is one of the past activities that led to the existence of our new dispensation. It all started because Pondo people striked the way that we did. … a commission was set up led by Mr. Abraham coming from Pretoria, concerned as to what bothered us. We then told him that we did not want eavesdroppers, who were the Boers at the time. A person who represent us but knowing nothing about our culture or beliefs, including problems … we didn’t want to be represented by another nation; the black nation is large enough. Let there be people who will stand for us at Parliament in Cape Town. The Pondo revolt was resistance against the introduction of taxes by the government via the chiefs, which meant Pondo people had to use their livestock as payment. When the revolt started all the chiefs ran away from 1960. Some even went to Mzimkulu. It then came to our attention that people were frustrated. They wanted to farm, they wanted to build. So the committee was started here on the mountains, so if anyone needed land, they should be given land, regardless of going to the chief, because they were not there anymore. It was only the steering committee.

Notes: Simon Silangwe from scene of incident; Pondo revolt, poster; Photos: Mpondo men on horseback

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