Oral interview, in Kimberley, South Africa, with Robert Sobukwe (1924 to 1978), who was elected Founding President of the Pan Afticanist Congress in April 1959, jailed for several years as a result of the PAC anti-pass campaign, restricted to living in Kimberley and banned from attending meetings, speaks about Communism, alliances, the defiance campaign and other issues.
Archive record
Interview with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe

- Origin date
- July 1973
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Interview with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0114211
South African History Online (2016) 'Interview with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0114211 (Accessed: 24 July 2026).
South African History Online, Interview with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe [website], https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0114211, (accessed 24 July 2026).
"Interview with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0114211. Accessed 24 July 2026.
South African History Online. "Interview with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0114211.
Further reading
DISA Archive
Letter from Barney Pityana to Neville Curtis
Robert Sobukwe Town, was called Graaf-Reinet
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