Oral interview, conducted in Nairoi, with P. K. Leballo (1924-1986) a leader in the Africanist movement and later in the Pan Africanist Congress, serving as its secretary general from its founding in April 1959, and later as its acting president in exile. A man of high energy and mercurial temperament, he was responsible for much of the PAC's success before Sharpeville, as well as for most of its failings in the following two decades.
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Interview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo
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- July 1971
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019
South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Interview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ve/ref/R-0114209
South African History Online (2016) 'Interview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ve/ref/R-0114209 (Accessed: 26 July 2026).
South African History Online, Interview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ve/ref/R-0114209, (accessed 26 July 2026).
"Interview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/ve/ref/R-0114209. Accessed 26 July 2026.
South African History Online. "Interview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/ve/ref/R-0114209.
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