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In our vocabulary therefore, the word “race”, as applied to man, has no plural form.
He continued:
Against multi-racialism we have this objection, that the history of South Africa has fostered group prejudices and antagonisms, and if we have to maintain the same group exclusiveness, parading under the term of multiracialism, we shall be transporting to the new Africa these very antagonisms and conflicts.
Further, multiracialism is in fact a pandering to European bigotry and arrogance.
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Remembering Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe: Film & Discussion
December 5, 2024 will mark the 100th birthday of Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe.
There he was subject to banning orders which prohibited him from engaging in any political activities. At about 1:30pm, after police arrested one of the protesters, the crowd pushed against the fence surrounding the station. At least three of the Sobukwe children qualified as teachers and one was ordained as an Anglican bishop.
Robert was always an exceptional student.
“We are pro-Africa. Both the PAC and the African National Congress (ANC) responded with nationwide civil disobedience campaigns.
Breaking the system
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On the morning of 21 March 1960, aged 35, Sobukwe left his home in Mofolo, Soweto, to lead a small crowd on an eight-kilometre march to Orlando police station.
The crowd had one goal.
Both parents encouraged their children to pursue education, an education Sobukwe’s parents had been denied.
Sobukwe’s education followed the pattern of Nelson Mandela and other African intellectuals of the time.
Like Mandela, he went to high school at the Healdtown Institute, where he rose to be head boy.
The magnitude of his deeds and beliefs is largely ignored.
And when the ANC announced its intention to stage an anti-pass campaign on March 31, 1960, Sobukwe resolved to get a jump on them. While in Standerton, Sobukwe’s ties with the ANC had weakened somewhat, but in Johannesburg – the epicentre of the struggle – he was thrown back into the daily affairs of the party.
And he did not agree with everything he saw or heard.
One woman was hit about ten yards from our car. He was released in May 1969 and banished to Kimberley.
Robert Sobukwe died on the 27 February 1978 from lung complications after a long illness. “I found the views and behaviour of the PAC immature … While I sympathised with the views of the Africanists and once shared many of them, I believed that the freedom struggle required one to make compromises.”
Sobukwe was unanimously elected as leader of the new party.
As Pogrund writes, “one or perhaps two policemen opened fire and then there was a full volley from revolvers, rifles and Sten-guns. After completing the free primary school education available in Graaff-Reinet, he was forced to wait two years while his parents mustered the money to send him to high school at Healdtown, the same prestigious Methodist boarding school Nelson Mandela attended.
He was driven in a police van to the clinic where Veronica worked as a nurse to collect his house keys. Email [email protected]
Robert Sobukwe, the South African leader once as revered as Mandela
On Monday, March 21, 1960, Robert Sobukwe, the 35-year-old leader of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), woke at 5am.
He refused the help of an attorney and would not appeal the sentence. I could hardly understand it – the lack of bitterness.”
‘Power of belief in humanity’
Writing in 2015, Pogrund noted: “South Africa has not been kind to Robert Sobukwe. And above all, they resent encroachment on what they regard as their special province.
Sobukwe embarked on a nationwide tour to drum up support for his new party. If told to disperse, we will.