Robert Sobukwe

Robert Sobukwe

Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (5 December 1924-27 February 1978) was a South African political dissident, who founded the Pan Africanist Congress in opposition to the apartheid regime. In 2004 Sobukwe was voted 42nd in the SABC3's Great South Africans.

Read more about Robert Sobukwe:  Early Years, Mainstream Politics, Internment, Robben Island Imprisonment, Kimberley: Internal Exile, Illness and Death

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