Robert Sobukwe.
(Image: Unknown photographer)Feb 28, 2007 – Today the Nelson Mandela Foundation marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. This great South African was the first leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) and a former Robben Island prisoner.
Nelson Mandela, in Long Walk to Freedom, wrote: “The founders of the PAC were all well known to me. Robert Sobukwe was an old friend. He was the proverbial gentleman and scholar (his colleagues called him ‘Prof’). His consistent willingness to pay the penalty for his principles earned my enduring respect.”