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Nkosi Phathekile Holomisa is one of the few leaders in our society who has been using a public platform to warn us about the missing link in our modern democracy. --Herbert W. Vilikazi, sociologist

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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.

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