Mkhuseli "Khusta" Jack was born on 31 May 1958 and is a South African politician, businessman and anti-apartheid activist.
17 Facts About Mkhuseli Jack
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Mkhuseli Jack was known in the 1980's for his involvement in the anti-apartheid struggle and his efforts in the Consumer Boycott Campaign.
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Mkhuseli Jack was born on 31 May 1958, on the Mosskraal Farm in Humansdorp, a small town in one of the districts surrounding the Eastern Cape in South Africa.
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Mkhuseli Jack finished Standard Five and Six in a coastal town called Jeffreys Bay due to the lack of a permit he required to complete his schooling in Humansdorp.
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Mkhuseli Jack only learned about the system of apartheid in South Africa when he moved to the city of Port Elizabeth to continue his high school education.
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Mkhuseli Jack helped form the United Democratic Front on 20 August 1983.
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Mkhuseli Jack understood that violence wouldn't work against a regime that was strongly armed and stressed the importance of cohesion and co-ordination amongst those opposing the Apartheid Regime.
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Mkhuseli Jack began forming street committees where members would meet at random points on roadsides so as to seem informal and not arouse suspicion.
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Mkhuseli Jack recruited neighbourhood leaders to settle disputes and represent their interests.
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Mkhuseli Jack's imprisonment coupled with hunger strikes endeared him to the black community and as a result, Jack's importance grew.
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Mkhuseli Jack was one of the few people in South Africa at the time to use them.
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Aged twenty-seven, Mkhuseli Jack was a spokesperson and one of the main leaders of the movement, which would become known as the Consumer Boycott Campaign.
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Mkhuseli Jack worked for different companies, principally in development and management, including:.
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Mkhuseli Jack serves as Chairman of the Port Elizabeth Technical Colleges, St Francis Hospice and Emfuleni Resorts.
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In 2009, Mkhuseli Jack was named as one of a group of powerful Eastern Cape businesspeople that emerged as bankrollers of the breakaway political party, the Congress of the People, which formally split from the ANC on the 1.
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Mkhuseli Jack is a professor at the 2013 School of Authentic Journalism.
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Parallel to that, Mkhuseli Jack is raising a family with his wife Karen with whom he has two children.