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Unyielding Pan-Africanist: The late great Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe.
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The unforgettable Sobukwe

Fort Hare must be to the African what Stellenbosch University is to the Afrikaner

Politically spiritual: Robert Sobukwe believed that politics is an ethical duty and that personal transformation is required to produce ethical leaders. (Robben Island/Mayibuye Archives)

Human Rights Day: South Africa continues to neglect the legacy of Robert Sobukwe

The memory of the influential former leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress has been shunted to the margins in the country’s sham democracy

Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe: New Reflections, edited by Benjamin Pogrund (Jonathan Ball)

New ways of seeing Sobukwe

This collection of essays by people touched by the PAC leader opens a debate on his influence

Walking the long road: Through her primary work as a nurse, Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe widened the site of resistance against apartheid alongside her husband. (Photo: Peter Magubane)

A quiet partner in revolution

She was reticent but Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe’s story of her place in the liberation struggle is emerging

Lesetja Kganyago said the central bank was looking at four 25 basis points hikes by the end of 2020. This would bring the repo rate to 7.5% by the end of 2020. (Bloomberg)

Thank you eternally, Mme Sobukwe

In next week’s edition of Friday a tribute to yet another woman who should not have suffered will honour the life of Mme Sobukwe.

Good shot: Nomvo Booi is seen here with comrades at the Bamagamoyo camp at Mothopheng Military College in Tanzania (Supplied)

Nomvo ‘Poqokazi’ Booi, a mother of the struggle

Nomvo Booi was as important to the battle against apartheid as her male counterparts

Mmusi Maimane speaks to journalists and residents in Sharpville on Human Rights Day.

Maimane: Our struggle is to fight the oppression of colonialism and apartheid

Maimane’s comments alluded to tweets sent last week by DA Western Cape Premier Helen Zille.

Titan of the struggle: Robert Sobukwe and other frustrated Africanists split from the ANC during a stormy provincial congress in 1958

​Sobukwe: A giant whose voice endures

Unlike canonised Madiba, the Africanist leader was feared in life and all but forgotten in death.

Former president of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe.

Robert Sobukwe’s dream unrealised, 21 years into democracy

Robert Sobukwe died 37 years ago today. His dream of economic emancipation remains unrealised, with half of the population still living in poverty.

Golden Miles: ‘We’ll stand with Juju to bitter end’

Golden Miles: ‘We’ll stand with Juju to bitter end’

Prisoners’ rights activist Golden Miles has taken steps to launch a website, Facebook page and SMS hotline account for the beleaguered Julius Malema.

BC parties want free press

BC parties want free press

Black consciousness is mostly ignored by the media, but it doesn’t support censorship.

PAC to split again over ‘power-grab’

Party leader Letlapa Mphahlele denied that he was centralising power and dismissed suggestions that he wants to run the party without a constitution.

When darkies are dazed, leaders are few

I am not about to give up on ”darkies” or offer nails for the coffin of black leadership.

Front page of the Contact (The Friday Times)

Sharpeville: By the only reporter who was there

Three decades ago this week, police opened fire on an unarmed crowd in a small Vaal township.