Rose Sonto describes student organizing in his high school in Malteno, in the Eastern Cape, in 1969, well before the Soweto Uprising of 1976. The main political influence on him at that time was the Black Consciousness Movement.
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Roseberry Sonto interviewed by David Bailey, Cape Town, 2007
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