History of tokyo sexwale
Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale!
History of tokyo sexwale
Tokyo Sexwale Biography: Early Life | Political career | Business Ventures | Personal Life
This is the biography of Tokyo Sexwale, an ANC politician, businessman, political prisoner and former premier of Gauteng.
Early Life and Education
Mosima Gabriel “Tokyo” Sexwale was born on March 5, 1953, in the township of Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa.
His father, a clerk at Johannesburg General Hospital, had served in World War II. Growing up during the tumultuous times of apartheid, Sexwale was influenced by the black township’s upheaval. He completed his high school education at Orlando West High School in 1973.
Tokyo Sexwale Early Political Life
In the late 1960s, Sexwale became involved with Steve Biko’s Black Consciousness Movement and quickly rose to become a local leader of the radical South African Students’ Movement.
His political activism deepened in the early 1970s when he joined the African National Congress’s armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (“Spear of th