Preceded by Alfred Xuma Occupation Medical doctor | Name James Moroka Succeeded by Albert Lutuli Role Medical doctor | |
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Died November 10, 1985, Thaba Nchu, Free State, South Africa Similar People Pixley ka Isaka Seme, John Langalibalele Dube, Oliver Tambo, Sol Plaatje, Nelson Mandela | ||
Education University of Edinburgh Political party African National Congress | ||
Former anc president james moroka memorial lecture
James Sebe Moroka, OLG (16 March 1891 – 10 November 1985) was a medical doctor and a politician, who was the president of the African National Congress 1949–1952.
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- Former anc president james moroka memorial lecture
- Official opening of our muller potgieter and james moroka buildings
- References
Moroka was elected as the president of the ANC by the support of the African National Congress Youth League and its leaders Walter Sisulu and Nelson Mandela in December 1949. During Moroka's presidency, the ANC started to implement more militant tactics in fighting the country's Apartheid regime.
In 1952 Moroka was convicted of "statutory communism" according to the Suppression of Communism Act with 20 other defendants. During the trial Moroka pleaded for mitigation and rejected ANC's principles of racial equality and was soon expelled from the party.
The district hospital in Thaba Nchu is named in his memory.