Vukile Theo Phanyaphanya

Johannesburg, Gauteng

Senior Education Specialist, Teacher Development

Was borne in the Eastern Cape, Edutywa kwilali yasemahliwane Kwisithili saseGwadana. Attended primary school at Mahliwane while hobbying on horse racing as a young joky of 13. Along the growing process I expereienced, like all black Azanians the scars of the evil of apartheid became my every day life, almost living life inbetween Johannesburg and the then Transkei. In 1972 when I was 10 I was introduced to the politics of the Black Consciousness Movement by elderly comrades such as Khotso Seatlholo, Rola, Amos "Ambie" Masondo in some quazi-youth club at Emaweni Primary next to Sekano-Ntoane where Dan Motsesi, Gabriel "Gab" Zwane, Rola, Khotso Mosetlha, Happy Ntshingla, Murphy Morobe, were at