SA pays tribute to anti-apartheid fighter Robert Sobukwe with a series of youth-focused activities, lectures, seminars, and exhibitions. One of South Africa’s most feared political prisoners, Robert ...

On 21 March 1960 the apartheid police opened fire on unarmed marchers protesting against a law that forced black people to carry identity documents. Over 200 were injured and 69 killed. The following ...

At first glance, to draw a line from Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) founder Robert Sobukwe to the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) as putative political heir seems an easy one. There are both historical ...

In director Palesa Mazamisa’s play, Lala Ngenxeba/Of Love and Revolution, three young actor-activists explore Robert Sobukwe’s life and legacy. Their playful but serious performances take ...

The mortal fight against apartheid is usually cast in terms of good versus evil, a simple schism in which there are heroes and villains, or racially, in a white against black equation that blots out ...

Pretoria - The Department of Sports, Arts and Culture has officially unveiled the exhibition of an anti-apartheid icon schooled in the mass democratic movement, Professor Robert Sobukwe at the ...

A name often forgotten in the lexicon of South Africa’s liberation stalwarts yet carries so much gravitas and reverence. I regard the attempted erasure of Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe’s legacy as ...

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 tub ...

“We must, therefore, appreciate our role. We must appreciate our responsibility. The African people have entrusted their whole future to us. And we have sworn that we are leading them, not to death, ...