Wallace mgoqi biography

Wallace Amos Mgoqi (7 June 1949 - 3 April 2023) was a South African attorney, businessman and activist.
Wallace Amos Mgoqi, born on 7 June 1949 at Goodwood in Cape Town, was the product of his time.
Wallace Amos Mgoqi was a South African attorney, businessman and activist.

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Wallace Mgoqi: A gentle giant of activism and leadership

Picture: Ayanda Ndamane / African News Agency (ANA) – Memorial service for the late Ayo Technology Solutions chairperson, Dr Wallace Mgoqi at the Every Nation Church in Goodwood, Western Cape.

By Professor Gilingwe Mayende

Strong family bonds and values, adversity, providence, a firm religious foundation, a determined sense of destiny, and strength of character, combined fortuitously to produce the man that South Africa and the world would come to know as Wallace Mgoqi. Other key features of his social milieu were a bittersweet childhood and having to navigate an endless stream of hardships imposed by the vicissitudes of living under the abhorrent system of apartheid. In spite of all the terrible conditions that had marked him at birth for a life of misery under apartheid, key figures such as his teachers, school principals and priests, emerged and would guide him through the turbulence of growing up under these conditions. Like many who knew and worked with him, it is a singular honour to pen these few words of

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Commissioner Wallace Mgoqi is the former City Manager of the City of Cape Town, the former Chief Land Claims Commissioner on the Restitution of Land Rights. He is a former Attorney and Advocate of the High Court of South Africa. He holds a BA degree in Social Science (UNISA), LLB (UCT) as well as three honorary Doctorate degrees (University of Cape Town, Walter Sisulu University and New York University). Several honours bestowed upon him came partly as a result of his social justice activism, human rights work and extensive community based work.

Wallace Mgoqi was once the Chairperson of the Trust for Community Outreach and Education, a member of the Panel of Arbitrators by the Arbitration Foundation of South Africa as well as to the Tokiso Panel of Mediators. He is former Director of Companies, including: Old Mutual, Old Mutual Bank, Safmarine, Safren Ltd, Syfrets and Sekunjalo Investment Ltd (Non-Executive Chairman).

Commissioner Wallace Mgoqi served on the Board of the National Development Agency, Alumni Advisory Board of UCT, Ernest Mancoba Advisory Board, (as Chairperso

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Wallace Mgoqi

South African activist (1949–2023)

Wallace Amos Mgoqi (7 June 1949 - 3 April 2023) was a South African attorney, businessman and activist.

Early life

Mgoqi was born in Goodwood, a suburb of Cape Town.^[1] Under the Group Areas Act his family were moved to Nyanga township in 1955. The family moved to live with his grandparents in E-Thwathwa in the Kat River valley near the town of Seymor in the Eastern Cape.^[1] He attended high school at Healdtown Comprehensive School in Fort Beaufort and studied for a degree in Social Science from Fort Hare University. At Fort Hare he became involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and, in his final year, was expelled along with his entire class after a student-led strike against poor-quality food.^[1] He refused to return to Fort Hare and subsequently completed his degree through UNISA.

Career

Mgoqi returned to Cape Town in 1973 and became involved in assisting oppressed communities. He worked for organisations such as the Trust for Community Outreach (TCOE), the Western Pr