Mpho Masemola is Secretary General of the Ex Political Prisoner's Veterans Association of South Africa (EPPA) and was an underground guerrilla fighter as a member of the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress. He was a political prisoner Pollsmoor Prison, where he was incarcerated along with Nelson Mandela, and later at Robben Island. Masemola was one of ten signatories of the International Delegation to the 2021 Syrian Presidential Election (bit.ly/syria2021). He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

This interview was recorded on June 16th, 45th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising, when 20,000 Black students protested white supremacist schooling policies in Apartheid South Africa.

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