Dumisa Ntsebeza

Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza (born 31 October 1949) is a South African Lawyer, public speaker, author and political activist born in Transkei, now the Eastern Cape.[1] He is the Chairman of the Desmond Tutu Peace Trust[2] and a trustee of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. He was involved in the political struggle against apartheid in the mid-1970s, when he served time in prison during which he completed his law degree.[3] Ntsebeza emerged as a commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1995.[4] Ntsebeza was appointed chancellor of the University of Fort Hare in January 2017.

References

  1. ↑ Gibbs, Timothy (2014). Mandela's Kinsmen: Nationalist Elites & Apartheid's First Bantustan. Boydell & Brewer. p. 87. ISBN 9781847010896.
  2. ↑ "Desmond Tutu Peace Centre to shut down". West Cape News. 25 May 2014.
  3. ↑ Bell, Terry; Ntsebeza, Dumisa Buhle (2003). Unfinished Business: South Africa, Apartheid, and Truth. Verso. p. 152. ISBN 9781859845455.
  4. ↑ Meiring, Pieter (2014). Chronicle of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Journey through the Past and Present into the Future of South Africa. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 189. ISBN 9781625647146.



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