[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  History ZAR [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/twitter/HistorySAZAR) on x 67.3K followers Created: 2025-07-25 16:48:33 UTC Moses Mauane Kotane (1905-1978) was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal. Largely self-taught, he received only a few years of formal schooling, but became an insatiable reader. Later as a young worker he enrolled in the Communist-run night school in Ferreirastown in JHB where he became known for his ability to master the most abstruce political writings. Kotane worked as a domestic servant, Miner, bakery worker. In 1929 he joined the CPSA & soon became its vice chairman. Kotane was offered an opportunity to go to the Soviet Union for a year to study at the Lenin School in Moscow. In 1939 he was elected the General Secretary of the CPSA. In 1943, Dr Xuma invited him to serve on the Atlanta Charter Committee & was elected to the NEC of the ANC in 1946. Following the 1946 mine strike, he and other leaders were subjected to two years of legal proceedings by the Smuts government. He was part of the Defiance Campaign of 1952 and was arrested with one of the first batches of defiers. He was charged for Treason in the famous Treason Trial. During the 1960 state of emergency he was detained for X months and in late 1962 was placed under XX hour house arrest. In early 1963 he left SA for exile.  XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [moses](/topic/moses) [Post Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1948787466753687782)
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History ZAR @HistorySAZAR on x 67.3K followers
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Moses Mauane Kotane (1905-1978) was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal. Largely self-taught, he received only a few years of formal schooling, but became an insatiable reader. Later as a young worker he enrolled in the Communist-run night school in Ferreirastown in JHB where he became known for his ability to master the most abstruce political writings. Kotane worked as a domestic servant, Miner, bakery worker. In 1929 he joined the CPSA & soon became its vice chairman. Kotane was offered an opportunity to go to the Soviet Union for a year to study at the Lenin School in Moscow. In 1939 he was elected the General Secretary of the CPSA. In 1943, Dr Xuma invited him to serve on the Atlanta Charter Committee & was elected to the NEC of the ANC in 1946. Following the 1946 mine strike, he and other leaders were subjected to two years of legal proceedings by the Smuts government. He was part of the Defiance Campaign of 1952 and was arrested with one of the first batches of defiers. He was charged for Treason in the famous Treason Trial. During the 1960 state of emergency he was detained for X months and in late 1962 was placed under XX hour house arrest. In early 1963 he left SA for exile.
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