ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the autobiography of an Underground Political Activist. The author was born around the year 1950 in the Venda village of Vondo-la-Thavha where his grandfather, Matshavha MudzungaTshivhase, was the traditional leader. School fees were relatively low then, five cents per quarter. In order to raise that amount, he started to plant a small vegetable garden which, especially in winterd produced healthy crops of china spinach and cabbage, which he sold to pay for his school fees. It is through BECO that, as a young man, he started to become politicised, meeting other young people with similar interests and frustrations. Soon after that he started working at the school realising that all of the Maths teachers were in fact not trained in Maths, but in Arithmetic. In 1983, he was promoted to the position of Vice-Consul. It was in this period that he began to operate in a dual capacity as government employee and underground political activist.
