Vusumzi L. Make was a South Africa

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n civil rights activist and lawyer. He is an ex-husband of American

United States

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 poet Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...

; the two married in 1960, lived together in Cairo

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, Egypt

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 for three years, and divorced in 1963. He was a professor at the University of Liberia

University of Liberia

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 in Monrovia

Monrovia

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, Liberia

Liberia

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 from 1968 to 1974.

Time in the Pan Africanist Congress

When Potlako Leballo

Potlako Leballo

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, Chairman of the Pan Africanist Congress, was forced out of the position, Make joined a Presidential Council consisting of David Sibeko

David Sibeko

David Maphgumzana Sibeko , was known as the "Malcolm X of South Africa" and began his political career as a journalist for the black South African Magazine Drum. During his tenure with that magazine, he became a leading figure within the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania...

, Ellias Ntloedibe, and himself. Several months later, Make became the sole Chairman. He resigned from the chairmanship in January 1981 to make way for John Nyathi Pokela, who had been recently imprisonment on Robben Island

Robben Island

Robben Island is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 km west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. The name is Dutch for "seal island". Robben Island is roughly oval in shape, 3.3 km long north-south, and 1.9 km wide, with an area of 5.07 km². It is flat and only a...

. Under Pokela, Make served as deputy chairman of the PAC.. He died on April 15, 2006 in Pretoria

Pretoria

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. and is survived by his widow Alma Liziwe Make and Daughter Titise.

External links

• Statement on behalf of the South Africa United Front, an anti-apartheid piece written by Make and Oliver Tambo
  Oliver Tambo
  Oliver Reginald Tambo was a South African anti-apartheid politician and a central figure in the African National Congress .-Biography:Oliver Tambo was born in Bizana in eastern Pondoland in what is now Eastern Cape...