Tembeka Ngcukaitobi commemorates the 45th anniversary of the death of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
The memory of the influential former leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress has been shunted to the margins in the country’s sham democracy
For Africa to be for Africans, pan-Africanism should be a lived experience, not an ideological project for political rhetoric.
Robert Sobukwe died 37 years ago today. His dream of economic emancipation remains unrealised, with half of the population still living in poverty.
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Robert Sobukwe’s wife was an activist, and she looked after the children while he was incarcerated
Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe — struggle icon and widow of Robert Sobukwe — died on Wednesday morning
A new film has explored why the famous Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) lÂeader Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe has almost Âdisappeared from memory.
The current assault on freedoms would make the pan-Africanist Robert Sobukwe turn in his grave.
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/ 25 February 2007
The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) said on Saturday at the party’s 29th Robert Sobukwe Commemoration rally, at the Collie Koeberg Stadium in Graaff-Reinet, that the PAC will never join hands with the African National Congress (ANC), which it accuses of ”cut-throat capitalism” that only benefits its own party officials.
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/ 30 January 2007
The University of Fort Hare said on Monday that it will not support the proposal by the Pan Africanist Congress to rename the university after the party’s founder, Robert Sobukwe. The university said its name is already significant as a place that produced progressive leaders who played a key role in the liberation struggle.