{"id":161,"date":"2009-04-10T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T15:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itech.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/?p=161"},"modified":"2009-04-10T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T15:43:11","slug":"twebe-mr-moses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/2009\/04\/10\/twebe-mr-moses\/","title":{"rendered":"Twebe, Mr. Moses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><a href=\"?p=76\">Archives<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"?p=85\">Interview Transcripts<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=78\">Maps<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=77\">Photos<\/a> | <a href=\"?page_id=567\" target=\"_self\">Links<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"?p=94\">South Africa<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=95\">Mississippi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p><!--    --><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Interview with Mr. Moses Twebe<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a title=\"twebe-mr-moses-8-13-2008-interview-transcript.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/files\/2009\/04\/twebe-mr-moses-8-13-2008-interview-transcript.pdf\">Click here to download the transcript of this interview.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>General Topic of Interview:Resistance to Apartheid<\/p>\n<p>Dates: 13 August, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Location: Dimbaza Location, King William\u2019s Town, South   Africa<\/p>\n<p>Narrator: Mr. Moses Twebe<\/p>\n<p>Interviewer: Phumza Williams<\/p>\n<p>Transcriber: Phumza Williams<\/p>\n<p>Translator: Phumza Williams<\/p>\n<p>Biographical Information:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Moses Twebe was born in 1922 in Addelaide where he was raised by his grandfather. \u00a0He was never able to go to school, instead working in the fields of farms in Addelaide. \u00a0He worked in Johannesburg 1942-45. \u00a0Mr. Twebe was arrested many times for his anti-apartheid activities, was once banned, and also spent a five-year term in Robben Island Prison beginning in 1963. \u00a0He currently lives in Dimbaza Location.<\/p>\n<p>Interview Information:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Twebe discusses his life history and biographical information. \u00a0He details the construction of the Moses Twebe Community Hall in Dimbaza Location, named after him and constructed just before he was released from Robben Island Prison. \u00a0He describes the differences between apartheid- and post-apartheid Dimbaza and the poverty caused when the factories in the area left. He tells of his interaction with Steve Biko \u00a0after Tewebe returned from prison: at his request, Biko procured a truck an a concrete mixer for Twebe so that he could make bricks. \u00a0Unfortunately, both truck and mixer were taken away from Twebe the next time he was arrested. \u00a0Mr. Twebe also suggests that South African youth need to be taught not to discriminate against South African whites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives |\u00a0Interview Transcripts | Maps | Photos | Links South Africa | Mississippi Interview with Mr. Moses Twebe Click here to download the transcript of this interview. General Topic of Interview:Resistance to Apartheid Dates: 13 August, 2008 Location: Dimbaza Location, King William\u2019s Town, South Africa Narrator: Mr. Moses Twebe Interviewer: Phumza Williams Transcriber: Phumza Williams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}