Thula bopela biography

Thula Bopela was born on the 2nd of January 1944. Thula Bopela is Chairman of the Council of the Organization PSIRA that regulates the private security industry in South Africa.

As a young man in the early 1960s, Bopela sacrificed his boyhood dream of becoming a lawyer, to follow his duty as a Zulu man to be a warrior against apartheid.  He joined the liberation struggle, in the ranks of Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1963.

The following year he was sent for military training in the Ukraine.

Thula bopela biography

He trained as an artillery specialist, where he graduated top of his class. In 1967, Bopela was part of an MK guerrilla contingent that was captured, tried and sentenced to death in the Salisbury High Court. After two years on Death Row, his sentence was commuted to life and he spent 13 years in prison until freed by Mugabe in 1980.

He received a scholarship from the World University in Kenya where he obtained his Sociology/Anthropology degree Cum Laude. He later returned to South Africa from his ex