Private Life
Mini was a gifted actor, dancer, poet and singer (he was a member of various groups and a prominent member of the P.E. Male Voice Choir). He is remembered for the songs he composed as well as their delivery in his powerful bass voice, sometimes militant, and at other times nostalgic. His words composed during the Treason Trial, 'Thath' unthwalo Buti sigoduke balindile umama no bab' ekhaya ' ('Take up your things Brother and let's go, they are waiting, our mothers and fathers, at home'), came to take on new associations as the forced relocation scheme of apartheid made Black people refugees in the land of their birth. He is remembered for composing one of the most popular liberation songs of the 1950s, 'Pasopa nansi 'ndondemnyama we Verwoerd ', ('Look out, Verwoerd, here are the Black people').
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