Mosibudi Mangena (born 7 August 1947 in

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) is a

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politician, former President of the

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(AZAPO). He is also currently the honorary President of AZAPO while Strike Thokoane is the current President, this is not unusual in the

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as was the case with

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who was also the honorary President of the

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in the early-1970s while Winfrey Kgware was the President. He was the Minister of Science and Technology (29 April 2004 - 10 May 2009). He was born in

, matriculated from Hebron Training College in 1969 and achieved an MSc degree in Applied Mathematics from the

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(called the ''University of Azania'' on the AZAPO website). He joined the

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(SASO) and was elected onto the Students Representative Council at the

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in 1971. Moving back to

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, he became chairperson of the SASO Pretoria branch in 1972. He chaired the Botswana region of the

Black Consciousness Movement of Azania The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) was a grassroots anti-Apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of the political vacuum created by the jailing and banning of the African National Congress and Pan Afri ...

(BCMA) in 1981 and the BCMA central committee from 1982 to 1994. He is also the former commander in chief of the Azanian National Liberation Army (AZANLA), the former armed wing of AZAPO. Mangena returned from exile in 1994 and became leader of AZAPO. He was appointed as Deputy Minister of Education in South Africa by President

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in 2001, and he became Minister of Science and Technology in 2004. After the resignation of Thabo Mbeki as President of South Africa in September 2008, AZAPO announced that they withdrew Mosibudi from his ministerial position.

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