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uprising">Soweto uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_Street,_Pretoria_bombing" title="Church Street, Pretoria bombing">Church Street, Pretoria bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaal_uprising" title="Vaal uprising">Vaal uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Sinton_Secondary_School#Trojan_Horse_Incident" title="Alexander Sinton Secondary School">Trojan Horse Incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Council_of_Churches#1988_bombing_of_Khotso_House" title="South African Council of Churches">Khotso House bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Town_peace_march" title="Cape Town peace march">Cape Town peace march</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Negotiations_to_end_apartheid_in_South_Africa" title="Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa">CODESA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Chris_Hani" title="Assassination of Chris Hani">Assassination of Chris Hani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_James_Church_massacre" title="Saint James Church massacre">Saint James Church massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Bophuthatswana_crisis" title="1994 Bophuthatswana crisis">1994 Bophuthatswana crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shell_House_massacre" title="Shell House massacre">Shell House massacre</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:lavender;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Category:Organisations_associated_with_apartheid" title="Category:Organisations associated with apartheid">Organisations</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/African_National_Congress" title="African National Congress">ANC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azanian_People%27s_Liberation_Army" title="Azanian People's Liberation Army">APLA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inkatha_Freedom_Party" title="Inkatha Freedom Party">IFP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afrikaner_Weerstandsbeweging" title="Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging">AWB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blanke_Bevrydingsbeweging" title="Blanke Bevrydingsbeweging">BBB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Sash" title="Black Sash">Black Sash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_Cooperation_Bureau" title="Civil Cooperation Bureau">CCB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_South_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Party of South Africa">Conservative Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(South_Africa)" title="Democratic Party (South Africa)">DP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/End_Conscription_Campaign" title="End Conscription Campaign">ECC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federation_of_South_African_Trade_Unions" title="Federation of South African Trade Unions">FOSATU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Party_(South_Africa)" title="Progressive Party (South Africa)">PP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_(South_Africa)" title="Reform Party (South Africa)">RP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Federal_Party" title="Progressive Federal Party">PFP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herstigte_Nasionale_Party" title="Herstigte Nasionale Party">HNP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umkhonto_we_Sizwe" class="mw-redirect" title="Umkhonto we Sizwe">MK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan_Africanist_Congress_of_Azania" title="Pan Africanist Congress of Azania">PAC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Democratic_Front_(South_Africa)" title="United Democratic Front (South Africa)">UDF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afrikaner_Broederbond" title="Afrikaner Broederbond">Broederbond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Party_(South_Africa)" title="National Party (South Africa)">National Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congress_of_South_African_Trade_Unions" title="Congress of South African Trade Unions">COSATU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Security_Branch_(South_Africa)" title="Security Branch (South Africa)">Security Branch</a></li> <li><a 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vernon_Berrang%C3%A9" title="Vernon Berrangé">Vernon Berrangé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._W._Botha" title="P. 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He was the President of the <a href="/wiki/African_National_Congress" title="African National Congress">African National Congress</a> from 1924 to 1927 and again from 1937 to 1940. He was also a Methodist pastor. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zacharias_Richard_Mahabane&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Zacharias Richard Mahabane was born in the town of <a href="/wiki/Thaba_Nchu" class="mw-redirect" title="Thaba Nchu">Thaba Nchu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orange_Free_State" title="Orange Free State">Orange Free State</a> and his parents were farmers. After his primary school education at a local <a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodist</a> <a href="/wiki/Mission_School" title="Mission School">Mission School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Thaba_Nchu" class="mw-redirect" title="Thaba Nchu">Thaba Nchu</a>, he attended the Morija Mission Institute in <a href="/wiki/Basutoland" title="Basutoland">Basutoland</a> now, <a href="/wiki/Lesotho" title="Lesotho">Lesotho</a> which was the homeland of his father, an establishment of the Paris Evangelical Mission.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1901 at the age of twenty, he qualified as a teacher there, he then later gave up teaching to become a court interpreter in a career that lasted until 1908. Later during 1908 he began theological training at the Lessyton Theological School near <a href="/wiki/Queenstown,_Eastern_Cape" class="mw-redirect" title="Queenstown, Eastern Cape">Queenstown</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was ordained as a <a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodist</a> minister in 1914. He was first sent to Bensonvale Parish and later <a href="/wiki/Cape_Town" title="Cape Town">Cape Town</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Verwey1995_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Verwey1995-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ranuga1996_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ranuga1996-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zacharias_Richard_Mahabane&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mahabane was married to Harriet Mantoro, they went on to have three daughters and two sons. Harriet was President of the National Council of African Women of <a href="/wiki/Kimberley,_Northern_Cape" title="Kimberley, Northern Cape">Kimberley</a> in 1936. He died at <a href="/wiki/Kroonstad" title="Kroonstad">Kroonstad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Free_State_(province)" title="Free State (province)">Free State</a>, in September 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_life">Political life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zacharias_Richard_Mahabane&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Political life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Reverend Mahabane went to <a href="/wiki/Cape_Town" title="Cape Town">Cape Town</a> in 1916, where he joined the <a href="/wiki/South_African_National_Native_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="South African National Native Congress">South African National Native Congress</a> (Cape Branch), and was elected as local President in 1919 at age 38. Along with the Coloured leader <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Abdurahman" title="Abdullah Abdurahman">Dr A. Abdurahman</a>, he organised the Non-European Unity Conferences between 1927 and 1934 where <a href="/wiki/African_people" class="mw-redirect" title="African people">Africans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coloureds" title="Coloureds">Coloureds</a> and <a href="/wiki/Indian_people" title="Indian people">Indians</a> discussed their common grievances and ideals.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was elected the President of the <a href="/wiki/African_National_Congress" title="African National Congress">African National Congress</a> from 1924 to 1927, he was opposed to communism and hence opposed <a href="/wiki/J.T._Gumede" class="mw-redirect" title="J.T. Gumede">J.T. Gumede</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1925 he was also elected as the Vice President of the Cape Native Voters’ Convention. He traveled to <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> in 1926 in connection with the ANC, and in 1927 and 1937 for missionary conferences. In the middle of 1927 the Church sent Reverend Mahabane and his wife to <a href="/wiki/Kimberley,_Northern_Cape" title="Kimberley, Northern Cape">Kimberly</a> where they remained until their departure in January 1937. While in <a href="/wiki/Kimberley,_Northern_Cape" title="Kimberley, Northern Cape">Kimberley</a> he had also been the Secretary of the African Christian Minister's Association of the Diamond Fields. In the year of 1937 when he was elected President of the ANC for his second term, he left Kimberley for <a href="/wiki/Winburg" title="Winburg">Winburg</a> in the Free State. Mahabane was a member of the 1936 <a href="/wiki/All-African_Convention" title="All-African Convention">All-African Convention</a> delegation that conferred with Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/J._B._M._Hertzog" title="J. B. M. Hertzog">J. B. M. Hertzog</a> prior to the submission of the separate-roll compromise to Parliament. Mahabane and <a href="/wiki/ZK_Matthews" class="mw-redirect" title="ZK Matthews">ZK Matthews</a> were elected to the executive, Mahabane becoming Vice president in 1937. Mahabane acted as vice-president of the AAC, and from 1940 to 1954 he served as the AAC's official vice-president.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When his term as ANC President ended in 1940 he became the official Chaplain to the ANC and was elected as a Lifelong Honorary President of the ANC in 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Elphick2012_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Elphick2012-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the 1940s he concentrated more on the AAC, and on the <a href="/wiki/Non-European_Unity_Movement" title="Non-European Unity Movement">Non-European Unity Movement</a>, of which he became President at its foundation in 1945, remaining in that position until 1956 when he resigned. In the 1940s he concentrated on religious organizations, this included the Inter-Denominational African Minister's Federation that was founded in 1945. He became its President in 1963.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Original_Writings">Original Writings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zacharias_Richard_Mahabane&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Original Writings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In 1923 he wrote his debut book entitled: “The Colour Bar in South Africa”.</li> <li>Prior to his death, he wrote another which would be his last entitled: “The Good Fight: Selected Speeches of Rev. Zacchaeus R. Mahabane”, under his name, but edited by G. M. Carter and S. W. 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