Philip Kgosana

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

Philip Kgosana (1936 – 20 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 March 30, 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]

He died of cancer on 20 April 2017.[4]

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.


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