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Inkosi Cromwell Diko was the HERO of the Nation of Amampondo, the gallant FIGHTER and the Icon of Black Consciousness. He was a seasoned political activist from early age who was because of his involvement in student politics expelled from the University of Fort Hare only left with one year to complete his LLB. He was later detained in Robben Island from 1960 to 1965.

When the ANC and PAC were banned in South Africa, he sort an alternative legal platform to execute his political ideology to fight for the dignity of African people. He was a member of the then Transkei Democratic Party and a member of Transkei Legislative Assembly from 1963 to 1968. He became a member of the Transkei National Independence Party 1968 to 1976 (TNIP).

He was strongly opposed to the subjugation of Africans under white minority rule and staunch supporter of non- racialism, non-sexism and the liberation of the African people. He believed in Equal opportunities for Black People. When the Transkei government sold out, he founded the Transkei People's Freedom Party (TPFP) which was an official opposition to KD Matanzima oppressive Transkei regime in 1976. He believed that the notion of Transkei government was created as a “Pondokkie for enslaving the Africans”.

He later became the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.

He once said “So all we want is that these Dutch people must change their minds and recognize us as Human Beings and give us the rights of man, that is all. As long as they believe this narrow ideology, which is egotistical and selfish, we shall fight for this kind of liberalism and human rights which must be given to everybody”

Opposed to Afrikaans language forced to black people that he believed that “Afrikaans had been introduced by boederbond Afrikaners for ulterior political motives”

In the National Assembly, he was regarded as volatile and controversial. He was once thrown out of National Assembly for his robust debate and challenging the oppressive Transkei Government.

His life was cut short when he was assassinated in Ntabankulu in 1985 for it had become the only way to shut him up from his political life.

He was the son to Nkosi Rhafana in the great house of Manyawuza, a grandson to Nkosi  Makhawula. a great grandson to Nkosi Vimbindlela, a great house to Nkosi  Diko. This is MANCI, MBALI, QHOLO, MDLUDLA KA BEKISA, NKANDA ZINDE ZINEMIQALA UKUWEL'UTHUKELA'

Cromwell Diko Hints of Military Assistance from Soviet Union Against Transkei 1978
The opposition leader, Cromwell Diko, hints at possible military assistance from the Soviet Union.

This statement was made on the 30 March 1978, and posed a serious political thread to the apartheid government and.approximately 8years later he was assassinated when he was championing a conversation of expropriation of Griqualand in Kokstad, saying that was Mpondoland that was stolen. Hear he said every man and woman younger than 40 years must receive military training to get ready for war against white imperialists. Cromwell was viewed as a volotile person and a treat to the signature of apartheid.