25/08/2020
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_____________________________________________Mendi Msimang (centre) was head of the National Education Council of the ANC, with Alfred Nzo (left) first black health inspector in the country. The Alfred Nzo Award is now awarded to deserving health practitioners in South Africa.
The opening of the ANC-Holland Solidarity Hospital at SOMAFCO. The hospital was planned and financed by a medical solidarity committee in Holland, with the ANC responsible for its construction. Additional equipment was supplied by Dutch supporters.
The Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO), was an educational institution established by the exiled African National Congress (ANC) in 1978 at Mazimbu, Tanzania. Its purpose was to give the youth that had fled South Africa after the 1976 Soweto uprising and children of existing exiles a primary and secondary education, an alternative to traditional Bantu education system they would have received at home. It would teach both an academic and vocational education. Farmlands would supply food to the institution and would also include a hospital. It was officially opened by Oliver Tambo in 1985.
Mazimbu - Morogoro, Tanzania
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