# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jafta-masemola
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:53:47.312Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jafta-masemola"
name: "Jafta Masemola"
slug: "jafta-masemola"
description: "Jafta Kgalabi Masemola OLS, also known as The Tiger of Azania and Bra Jeff, was a South African anti-apartheid activist, teacher, and founder of the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). He is the only person to spend 27 years in South African prison [Robben Island] during the apartheid era in South Africa, and was released in October 1989, shortly before the legalization of the PAC and the African National Congress 9anC) by F. W. de Klerk.\nMasemola served the longest sentence of any political prisoner in Robben Island prison in South Africa."
tagline: "South African politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Japhta_Masemola_(1963-89)_(5998332162).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1928"
deathDate: "1990-04-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.57
  momentum:             14.60526315789474
  historical:           6.415732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  229
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jafta_Masemola"
    title: "Jafta Masemola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Masemola"
    title: "Jeff Masemola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jafta_Masemola"
    title: "Jafta Masemola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jafta_Masemola"
    title: "Jafta Masemola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jafta_Masemola"
    title: "Jafta Masemola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jafta_Masemola"
    title: "Jafta Masemola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jafta_Masemola"
    title: "Jafta Masemola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jafta_Masemola"
    title: "Jafta Masemola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5475192"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump