Latest articles on Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe

Human Rights Day: South Africa continues to neglect the legacy of Robert Sobukwe

Article Thando Sipuye - 20 Mar 2020

The memory of the influential former leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress has been shunted to the margins in the country’s sham democracy

New ways of seeing Sobukwe

Article Lehlohonolo Shale - 29 Jan 2020

This collection of essays by people touched by the PAC leader opens a debate on his influence

A quiet partner in revolution

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 24 Aug 2018

She was reticent but Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe’s story of her place in the liberation struggle is emerging

Thank you eternally, Mme Sobukwe

Article Arts Desk - 17 Aug 2018

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 ‘Poqokazi’ Booi, a mother of the struggle

Article Zaza Hlalethwa - 10 Aug 2018

Nomvo Booi was as important to the battle against apartheid as her male counterparts

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Maimane: Our struggle is to fight the oppression of colonialism and apartheid

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Mar 2017

Maimane's comments alluded to tweets sent last week by DA Western Cape Premier Helen Zille.

Sobukwe: A giant whose voice endures

Analysis Staff Reporter - 8 Dec 2016

Unlike canonised Madiba, the Africanist leader was feared in life and all but forgotten in death.

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Robert Sobukwe’s pan-Africanist dream: An elusive idea that refuses to die

Analysis Mashupye Herbert Maserumule - 5 Dec 2016

For Africa to be for Africans, pan-Africanism should be a lived experience, not an ideological project for political rhetoric.

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Robert Sobukwe’s dream unrealised, 21 years into democracy

Article Staff Reporter - 27 Feb 2015

Robert Sobukwe died 37 years ago today. His dream of economic emancipation remains unrealised, with half of the population still living in poverty.

Golden Miles: ‘We’ll stand with Juju to bitter end’

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Apr 2012

Prisoners' rights activist Golden Miles has taken steps to launch a website, Facebook page and SMS hotline account for the beleaguered Julius Malema.

Sobukwe: Picture of an icon

Article Percy Zvomuya - 16 Mar 2012

A new film has explored why the famous Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) leader Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe has almost disappeared from memory.

BC parties want free press

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 10 Feb 2012

Black consciousness is mostly ignored by the media, but it doesn't support censorship.

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