Some analyses suggest South Africa’s human rights framework is “normatively robust but substantively fragile”, marked by a growing gap between constitutional ideals and social…
Sobukwe film screened at jail where he was kept In celebration of Pan Africanist Congress founder Robert Sobukwe, who would have been 100 years old on 5 December, the…
Play explores the intimate love and enduring sacrifices of Robert Sobukwe and his wife Veronica on the centenary of his birth
This is an edited extract from the book Darkest Before Dawn: Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the Life of Robert Sobukwe
Bringing together the traditional and the modern, Thandiswa Mazwai is taking her new album Sankofa to the world
The change of street and place names rouses the country’s attention unlike anything else and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi commemorates the 45th anniversary of the death of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
Lindiwe Sisulu and other power and prosperity seekers in the ANC had the authority to improve the lives of ‘the people’, but didn’t
Pan-Africanism is an ever-evolving ideology, without a set rubric, and is dependent on one’s interpretation
The memory of the influential former leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress has been shunted to the margins in the country’s sham democracy
The university with its rich history is not only the pride of the Eastern Cape but of the continent. It needs to regain its glorious status in academia and not only be in the…
This collection of essays by people touched by the PAC leader opens a debate on his influence
Robert Mugabe shaped and twisted an entire nation in his own image. Now he can rule forever from the Great Presidential Palace in the Sky.
‘She is the embodiment of humanity; evidently, as a nurse, but above all, as a mother of Azania’
Robert Sobukwe’s wife was an activist, and she looked after the children while he was incarcerated
He had moral authority and integrity, and believed that land was at the heart of his fight for liberation
The regime regarded the PAC leader as the only political prisoner. The others, including Nelson Mandela, were ‘ordinary’ prisoners
Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe — struggle icon and widow of Robert Sobukwe — died on Wednesday morning
Whiteness has spread its colour through knowledge production, teaching and learning
"We should celebrate Sobukwe for being an uncompromising anti-apartheid hero, but we need not distort history to do so"
