Tshenuwani Farisani | |
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| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office 2009–2010 | |
| President | Jacob Zuma |
| Speaker of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature | |
| In office April 2004–April 2009 | |
| Premier | |
| Preceded by | Robert Malavi |
| Succeeded by | Rudolph Phala |
| Member of the Limpopo Executive Council | |
| In office July 1997–April 2004 | |
| Premier | Ngoako Ramatlhodi |
| President of the Black People's Convention | |
| In office 1973–1975 | |
| Preceded by | Winnie Kgware |
| Succeeded by | Hlaku Kenneth Rachidi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 August 1948 Northern Transvaal, Union of South Africa |
| Political party | African National Congress |
| Other political affiliations | South African Communist Party |
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Tshenuwani Simon Farisani (born 30 August 1948) is a South African politician, theologian, and Lutheran minister. During apartheid, he was one of the country's most prominent black clergymen and preached anti-apartheid liberation theology from his diocese in Venda and Transvaal. He founded the Black Evangelic Youth Organisation with Cyril Ramaphosa in the early 1970s and was also active in the Black Consciousness movement, especially as president of the Black People's Convention from 1973 to 1975. He was arrested on four occasions, according to Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience, and he testified abroad about the torture he was subjected to by the apartheid police.
After the end of apartheid, Farisani represented the African National Congress in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature and National Assembly. He was a Member of the Executive Council in the Limpopo provincial government under the inaugural Premier of Limpopo, Ngoako Ramatlhodi, from 1997 to 2004, and from 2004 to 2009 he was Speaker of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature.