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This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.

Scott, Mpho

1965 -

In the mid-1980s Scott was Secretary of SADTU in Natal, Branch Secretary of COSAS and Publicity Secretary for the Natal branch of COSAS. He was also involved in the Lamontville Youth Organisation and helped to set up the Natal Youth Forum. He was the Co-ordinator of the Regional Education Crisis Committee and active in the UDF. He was imprisoned from 1986 to1988 and under house arrest from 1988 to1989. He was recruited into Operation Vula in 1988.

In the early 1990s he worked at the Centre for Community & Labour Studies at Natal University, and from 1991 to 1994 he was Secretary of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal. He was part of the Interim Regional Structure of the SACP and was involved in the negotiations at CODESA for the ANC. In 1994 he became an ANC MP.

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