Onkgopotse tiro biography of martin

          Parcel of Death recounts the little-told life story of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, the first South African freedom fighter the apartheid regime pursued beyond the..

          Abram Onkgopotse Tiro

          South African activist

          Onkgopotse Tiro (9 November – 1 February ) was a South African student activist and black consciousness militant.

          He was born in Dinokana, a small village near Zeerust.

          This chapter will place the struggle efforts and activism of Tiro in relation to how Dinokana has shaped him and other sites of struggles in.

        1. TIRO DAY: On 1 February BCM Leader Onkgopotse Tiro was assassinated in Botswana by a parcel bomb.
        2. Parcel of Death recounts the little-told life story of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, the first South African freedom fighter the apartheid regime pursued beyond the.
        3. Parcel of Death: The Biography of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro.
        4. Tiro lived his life in a manner that looked death in the eyes and challenged it to bring it on.

          5. He was expelled from the University of the North (now known as University of Limpopo) in for his political activities. At university he had become an active member of the South African Student Organisation, out of which the Black Consciousness Movement grew.

          After his expulsion from the then University of the North in , following his scathing critique of the Bantu Education Act of , he went on to teach history at Morris Isaacson High School near and around Central Western Jabavu (CWJ) in Soweto in Tsietsi Mashinini, who was an integral part of the student uprising, was one the students during the time he taught at Morris Isaacson, and many of his students have recalled his impact on their own politicisation during this period of student organisation in South Africa