James Mpanza, Date of Birth, Date of Death

James Mpanza

Father of Soweto

Date of Birth: 15-May-1889

Date of Death: 23-Sep-1970

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

James Mpanza (1889–1970) was convicted of both murder and fraud but he became a squatter leader in Johannesburg, South Africa from the mid-1940s until the late 1960s.
In 1944 he led the land invasion that resulted in the founding of modern Soweto.
Mpanza was at one time known as 'the father of Soweto'.