Daniel Mncedisi James Mange was born in Pimville Johannesburg in 1955. His family was removed to Jabavu, Soweto, where his father died in 1966. He was helped to attend school by an uncle, as his mother could not find employment. Mange completed three years at secondary school and then went out to work, where he was denounced by the management as a strike organiser when he complained about low wages, and dismissed. In 1976 he left South Africa to join the ANC and its military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe.
The ANC appeals for messages of sympathy and solidarity to James Mange's wife and son: Mrs Pauline Dipuo Mange, 889 Central Western Jabavu, Johannesburg, South Africa.
