My grandfather formed the ANC - Kgafela

MOCHUDI:  Bakgatla paramount chief Kgafela Kgafela II has confirmed that his father, the late Kgosi Linchwe II, held weapons for the African National Congress (ANC) when it was fighting to topple the apartheid regime.

He and his right hand man, Kgosana Ramono Linchwe, also revealed that Kgosi Linchwe II's father, Kgosi Molefhi, was a founding member of South Africa's leading liberation movement 100 years ago, indicating that Kgosi Kgafela came from a long line of proud rebels. The Bakgatla leaders were speaking at a kgotla meeting here in the wake of revelations by former South African president, Thabo Mbeki, who was the guest speaker at a Masire Foundation dinner in Gaborone recently.