The memory of the influential former leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress has been shunted to the margins in the country’s sham democracy
This collection of essays by people touched by the PAC leader opens a debate on his influence
She was reticent but Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe’s story of her place in the liberation struggle is emerging
In next week’s edition of Friday a tribute to yet another woman who should not have suffered will honour the life of Mme Sobukwe.
Nomvo Booi was as important to the battle against apartheid as her male counterparts
Maimane’s comments alluded to tweets sent last week by DA Western Cape Premier Helen Zille.
Unlike canonised Madiba, the Africanist leader was feared in life and all but forgotten in death.
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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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Prisoners’ rights activist Golden Miles has taken steps to launch a website, Facebook page and SMS hotline account for the beleaguered Julius Malema.
A new film has explored why the famous Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) lÂeader Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe has almost Âdisappeared from memory.
Black consciousness is mostly ignored by the media, but it doesn’t support censorship.
Party leader Letlapa Mphahlele denied that he was centralising power and dismissed suggestions that he wants to run the party without a constitution.
I am not about to give up on ”darkies” or offer nails for the coffin of black leadership.
Three decades ago this week, police opened fire on an unarmed crowd in a small Vaal township.