Charlotte Mannya Maxeke: The Mother of Black Freedom in South Africa

By Opinion | Published Aug 26, 2021

By Dr Vusi Shongwe“The present generation may rewrite history, but it does not write it on a blank page” (Maurice Halbwachs). “This work is not for yourselves. Kill that spirit of self and do not live above your people but live with them and if you can rise, bring someone with you. ” Charlotte Mannya Maxeke InstituteAddressing his people, President Igo Smirnov of Transnistria, near Ukraine, once said: “we must save the heritage of our heroic senior generation.