Lucas Ledwaba
There are striking similarities in the lives of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede and Roland Lamola who was this week announced as minister of justice and correctional services.
Lembede, a founding member of the ANC Youth League in 1944, came from a peasant family in what is now KwaZulu-Natal.
Lamola, who was among a group of leaders who reinvigorated the Youth League in the early 2000s, grew up on a farm in Mpumalanga.
He revealed in an interview with the Mail & Guardian a few years ago that growing up on the farm he didn’t regard politics as a career, and that his sole connection with the outside world was a tiny radio that belonged to his farmworker father. Lembede’s father was also a farmworker.
After matriculating in Bushbuckridge, the home of APC leader Themba Godi in 2000, Lamola studied law at the University of Venda graduating with an LLB in 2005.
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