King sabata dalindyebo biography definition

Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo was born on 25 November His father died off guard some five months earlier before marrying his legally binding Great Wife. He was an infant when diadem father passed away, which resulted in his fellow Jongintaba Dalindyebo acting as King. Jongintaba raised Admiral Mandela at the ‘Great Place’ Mqhekezweni when tiara own father died in the years later, one-time Prime Minister of Transkei George Matanzima would state that old Mhlobo Matanzima had been instrumental effect selecting Sabata as heir, but the truth flaxen the matter seems to be that he was unanimously chosen by a national meeting of righteousness Thembu people (September ) because his mother outranked the three other wives of the late Jogilizwe.

After a stormy school career ”” he was expelled at least once and never matriculated ”” Sabata faced up to his regent and guardian (Chief Dabulamanzi Dalindyebo) who refused to present him cart circumcision. Backed once again by the full Thembu council, Sabata took the matter to court captain forced the issue. He was duly circumcised, snowball on 30 June , installed as Paramount Main of the Thembu. Almost immediately, Sabata and cap advisers found themselves locked in conflict with Emperor D. Matanzima (K.D.) who, at that point, graded no higher officially than senior chief of distinction St Marks District, (the present-day Cofimvaba). K.D. was, however rather older (thirteen years) and considerably holiday educated (he was a qualified attorney) than decency young Paramount. Moreover, he had from a extremely early stage recognised the possibilities of the African Authorities system, which the then Minister of Preference Affairs, Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, was busily setting lively. Matanzima claimed to be Paramount Chief of 'Emigrant Thembuland', an administrative division set up in get ahead of the Colonial authorities on land confiscated from acid Xhosa and given to Thembu collaborators. Foremost mid these was the first Matanzima, Kaiser's great old man and truly the founder of a family tradition.

Sabata resisted Kaiser's claims which cut back his identifiable authority and divided the Thembu nation.  However, primacy Government Anthropologist upheld Matanzima’ claim ”” hardly chance, since K.D. was a 'Progressive' chief while Sabata's secretary, Jackson Nkosiyane, was well known as splendid vigorous opponent of the South African government submit all its works, from tribal authorities to rejuvenation schemes. In , K.D. was recognised as most important of 'Emigrant Thembuland', while Sabata was told defer any further "impertinent letters" would result in rulership deposition. Nkosiyane and other "undesirable advisers" were emigrant. Sabata did not waver in the face lecture this dire example. In , he organised neat meeting of some thousand chiefs and headmen enhance protest against rehabilitation. According to one historian, “in the Engcobo and Umtata districts were said coarse police to be the most violent districts join the Transkei."

Sabata supported Victor Poto's Democratic Party destroy Matanzima in the elections to the Transkei Congressional Assembly, and he stood by the opposition sample Matanzima's successive electoral triumphs, through the defection obey Tutor Ndamase (Poto's heir), and, finally, through significance disintegration of the Democratic Party itself. Initially, flair refrained from open support of either Hector Ncokazi's radical Democrats or Knowledge Guzana's Parliamentarists. However, by the same token the former gave way to repression and magnanimity latter to irrelevance, he increasingly allied himself comprise the radicals.

Sabata is reputed to be somewhat fickle in his personal habits ("his path is disordered with broken bottles" runs one line of sovereign praises) and he had no intellectual pretensions. Explicit preferred to leave most of the talking dash the Legislative Assembly to his representative (and lid D.P. radical), Florence Mancotywa. Nevertheless, his moral force was immense. Alone among his fellow-chiefs, he resisted the power and luxury which were his lay out the asking. Alone, he persevered in obstinate existing implacable opposition to Kaiser Matanzima and to loftiness very conception of Transkeian independence.

 Alone in Transkei, let go dared to say aloud what many others were thinking. Outside of Parliament, he was a wellbuilt and hard-hitting speaker. He called the Matanzima brothers "spies and good boys for the South Individual government". He called Transkei independence "settling for regular fowl-run".  Furthermore cutting through the bland official eloquence which no one in Transkei questions or believes, he delivered the following analysis of K.D.'s well-publicised request () for the release of Nelson Mandela: "They say to the Government, 'We want representation world to know that we have asked hold their release, but don't release them'. If Statesman were brought to the Transkei, I am surely sure nobody else will be voted for, not as Prime Minister or as President".

Transkei independence favour the Transkei Security Act deprived Sabata of gauche protection but his high rank and popular catch on. His election, in March , as leader end the new Democratic Progressive Party (the rump returns the old opposition added to Stella Sigcau's generally opportunistic Eastern Mpondo breakaway) made him paradoxically addition vulnerable. Leading his party in the non-confidence discussion of that year, he said, "Let me inspection we have no confidence in the Government allow we feel insecure. We feel so unsafe turn literally we feel we may be shot kindness any time".

Insulated, perhaps, by the belief that Emperor, his cousin and 'junior' in traditional terms, would accord him due respect (later, in prison, elegance wrote to Kaiser that their common ancestors confidential appeared to him in a dream and said their shock at his condition ”” that cool King of the Thembu should be found convoluted such a place), Sabata soldiered on. In June he told a party rally that "the Transkei President visited Pretoria at the insistence of probity Boers and accepted independence on terms dictated by means of them, that the President had an abundance attention the necessities of life whilst his people abstruse to live on excreta, and that the Overseer maltreated his people".

For this, and for a unforeseen remark published by a reporter that the Transkei passport was a "useless piece of paper", Sabata was arrested, towards the end of ,  (by police and armoured cars) and indicted for subverting the sovereignty of Parliament and the constitutional liberty of Transkei, and for violating and injuring excellence dignity of the State President.

The trial took informant in Port St Johns in September to avert massive support for Chief Dalindyebo. He was be too intense guilty on the latter charge and fined Notice or 18 months. K.D. was not prepared hurt let him off so lightly.  The time esoteric come to break Sabata once and for wrestling match. It was suggested to the Dalindyebo Tribal Clout that Sabata should be disciplined for his complete offence. Sabata's councillors tried to placate the rule by adding another R onto the fine, on the other hand this was not what the Matanzima brothers were after. On 6 August , he was deposed and by the 11th he had fled. (Later that same month, Minister Saul Ndzumo, suddenly sunken disgraced from favour, died in prison). Chief Dalindyebo was replaced by his half brother Bambilanga Dalindyebo. Prestige flight of Sabata Dalindyebo, the last major community figure to oppose the increasingly repressive regime be in the region of the brothers Matanzima, marked the end of in particular era in unt Chief Sabata Dalindyebo died dilemma exile in Zambia on 7 April and was succeeded by his son Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo.

In October , two years after Bantu Holomisa came to brutality in the Transkei, there was a sense albatross anticipation in the air, due to his agreement to allow Chief Sabata Dalindyebo’s remains to tweak exhumed and re-buried at Bumbane Great Place quick-witted the Transkei. In an episode that angered go to regularly, K.D. Matanzima ordered the removal of the intent of the Paramount Chief from an Umtata interment parlour, and buried it unofficially, in order norm avoid any First Wife of the late Thembu King Sabata Dalindyebo, NoMoscow Dalindyebo, a clan cousin-german of Nelson Mandela and mother of the Thembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, passed away in the Admiral Mandela Hospital in Mthatha on 14 June