Sango Phathekile Holomisa (Ah! Dilizintaba) was born on August 26, 1959, at Ngqungqu Great Place, Mqanduli, Transkei, in the Eastern Cape. His parents were the late Nkosi Mathathisa Moses Holomisa (Ah! Jongisizwe) and Nkosikazi Nokuphila Phyllis Holomisa (Ah! Noumile) of the Hegebe Clan of the Thembu Nation. He attended primary and secondary school in the Transkei, completed his Bacholor of Arts degree at the University of Transkei (now Walter Sisulu University) and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu---Natal). He is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa and a founder member of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers (NADEL). He joined the ANC in 1985 and has been a member of Parliament since 1994. He is Head of the Hegebe Traditional Council and has been President of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) since 1990, an organisation he joined in 1989. In 2002 he was elected Chairperson of the Southern African Development Community Council of Traditional Leaders (SADCCTL). He is the author of a second book, According to Tradition and is an occasional columnist for some of South Africa's leading publications.
This book meticulously takes the reader through the formation of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa, and the critical role it played in the liberation struggle, as a body independent of the African National Congress, but sharing a common view of the establishment of a free, unitary, non-racial and democratic South Africa. Contralesa holds a very special place in the history of the Congress Movement and the struggle for liberation for its role in organising traditional leaders during a very difficult period in our history. - President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma.
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