Khanyisile tshabalala biography channel

Amandla! speaks to Admiral Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala, Umkhonto we Sizwe veteran, former South African Navy admiral and currently a member of parliament for the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).

Khanyisile tshabalala biography channel

The interview was conducted in Cape Town, 19 October 2014.

Amandla! (A!): How did you become politically active and how did you come to be part of the EFF?

Admiral Litchfield-Tshabalala (A L-T): I started being politically active when I was 12 or 13 years old.

Travelling from Soweto to Johannesburg, even as a child, you could not help being confronted by extreme inequality and racism. I wrote a lot of poetry at that time on the plight of African people, and that’s been my rallying point.

My interest is not so much with workers or women or youth – it is much more with the plight of African people.

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At 17 or 18, I became active in the udf. Then I left the country and joined mk. I was trained in East Germany but based in Angol