On Monday, March 21, 1960, Robert Sobukwe, the 35-year-old leader of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), woke at 5am. His wife, Veronica, heated a kettle of water on the stove, and he washed in a ...

Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. In bringing together public and private documents, the book bridges the divide between the personal and the political to produce a rich and complex representation of ...

At moments like those one misses the brilliance of a Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, or Robert Sobukwe; all would have been able ...

Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe MANY magnificent human beings who achieved so much in the past are now almost forgotten. In retrospect, almost every era may be viewed as an age of giants, and ...

Over 200 were injured and 69 killed. The following edited excerpt is from a new book featuring the prison letters of Robert Sobukwe, who organised and led the march. In a letter of condolence ...

Sobukwe, in very trying times, remains an unsung hero in the epic moral fight against the evil that was apartheid. He was a political leader, a social activist and genuine humanist who stood ...

The apartheid government feared Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe so much that they extended his imprisonment despite his having completed his three-year jail term for the pass laws defiance campaign in 1960.

He made the remark when delivering the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe lecture at the McGregor Museum on the evening of Thursday, 10 May. According to his lecture, economic growth is hardly at 1%, while the ...

In bringing together public and private documents, the book bridges the divide between the personal and the political to produce a rich and complex representation of Sobukwe in his own words.