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BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… the conference to support their arguments. Led by Robert Sobukwe , they opposed the multiracialism enshrined in the … delegates participated. Between…
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… treason and discharged them. Turn to the Armed Struggle In 1959, with the Treason Trial still in progress, the ANC … who advocated an Africanist stance,…
EventNelson Mandela arrives on Robben Island to serve his five-year sentence
… where he met his old friend and political opponent Robert Sobukwe, the leader of the breakaway PAC. Mandela spent seven …
ArticleThe missionaries
… such as Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe and Ellen Kuzwayo attended mission schools. In the …
EventDeath in detention of Imam Haron
… to 1966). He maintained contact with Alex La Guma, Robert Sobukwe and others. He spoke out when others were silent. He …
PlaceGraaff-Reinet
… eloquent founder of the Pan Africanist Congress - Robert Sobukwe . He who spent most of the 1960's detained by the … wife, South Africa’s fourth-oldest town…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… by the ANC and other liberation organisation's prior to 1959 as well as on ideological grounds, a group of … away to form the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) …
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… to form the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) lead by Robert Sobukwe. On 25-26 August, the TIC held a conference at Gandhi … from attending any gatherings or…
EventState of emergency declared after Sharpeville Massacre
… in a series of mass arrests, including Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, leader of the Pan Africanist Congress, and Chief …
The Black Face of Apartheid
… agreed. In 1978 in Graaff Reinet, at PAC leader Robert Sobukwe's funeral, Buthelezi was jeered at and stoned by …
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… a life-long admiration for the party leader, Robert Sobukwe,” showing how friendship and admiration influenced … Bessie Head’s initial political interest. …
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
… icons like Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Robert Sobukwe and Albert Luthuli, all spent countless hours and …
Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016
… in the National Union of South African Students, Sobukwe, Mandela, Pallo Jordan) maintain he was also … and other liberation movements. To that end, Biko met…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… paradigmatic figures. Most notable among these were Robert Sobukwe, founding president of the Pan Africanist Congress, … Sobukwe, leader of the Pan…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… Document 17 - Letter from I. B. Tabata to Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe , 13 August 1949 Document 18 - Letter from C. I. R. … Conferences and the Tasks of the…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… In addition, Chief Albert Luthuli and Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe , leaders of the ANC and PAC respectively, were …
ArticlePoqo
… of the founding President of the PAC, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe , who died on 27 February 1978. The PAC situation was …
PlaceUniversity of Fort Hare, Alice- Eastern Cape
… like: Oliver Tambo ; Nelson Mandela ; Govan Mbeki ; Robert Sobukwe and Mangosuthu Buthelez i, in South Africa. Robert … like: Oliver Tambo; Nelson Mandela;…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Sindile Moya
… for planning and instigating the riots. Mangaliso Sobukwe the then President under house arrest in Kimberley …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… http://www.robbenisland.org.za/departments/heritage/gallery/sobukwe.asp. De Kadt, Raphael. From Apartheid to Democracy: …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… breakaway in Durban emphasises unity in the movement. 1959 The ANC and PAC organised separate anti-pass campaigns. … apartheid regime. January, An…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… are asked, through their spineless leaders," wrote Robert Sobukwe in The Africanist (December 1957), "not to … are all of them bourgeois!" ( The Africanist ,…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… he oversaw the Extension of University Education Act of 1959, which enforced separate universities for the different … was designed first of all to deal with…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… at the special court in the Old Synagogue at the end of 1959, when the accused had the satisfaction of witnessing the … Pirow declined to answer this…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… opens their case in the Treason Trial . 16 March, Robert Sobukwe writes to the commissioner of police, Major General … announces that 132 members of the PAC,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… of the ANCYL. A group of “youth leaguers”, led by Robert Sobukwe and Ashley Peter Mda condemned the Freedom Charter as … implicated in the Treason Trial that…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… leaders and organisations Cato Manor Protests, Natal. 1959-1960. © Private Collection, Franco Frescura. The … (“Pure” or “Alone”) , formed in February 1960…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… breakaway in Durban emphasises unity in the movement. 1959 13, 500 Natal workers join South African Congress of … founded in Orlando, Soweto under the…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… of the Black people in South Africa are Mandela 16 and Sobukwe. 17 One will first have to clear up and argue out the … Tolbert of Liberia. He addressed a…
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… Who is the longest serving political prisoner - Is it Sobukwe or Mandela?. - The other thing is the Sharpeville … future. You have my permission to make use…