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Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, a South African Nationalist.

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Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, a South African Nationalist.
- Sobukwe was born in Graaff-Reinet in the Cape Province on the 5 December 1924.
- He attended a Methodist college at Healdtown and later Fort Hare University where he joined the African National Congress
Youth League (ANCYL) in 1948.
- In 1949, Sobukwe was elected as president of the Fort Hare Students' Representative Council.
- In 1950, Sobukwe was appointed as a teacher at a high school in Standerton.
- In 1954, Sobukwe became a lecturer of African
Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.
- He identified with the Africanists within the African National Congress.
- He edited The Africanist Newspaper in 1957, criticizing the ANC for allowing itself to be dominated by 'liberal-left-multi-racialists.
- On 21 March 1960, Sobukwe led a march of PAC supporters to the local police station at Orlando, Soweto in order to openly defy the Pass laws.
- In a similar protest in Sharpeville, police opened fire on a crowd, killing 69 in the Sharpeville Massacre.
- Sobukwe was arrested, convicted of incitement, sentenced to three years in prison and later interned on Robben Island.
- Sobukwe was released in 1969 and allowed to live in Kimberley with his family under house arrest.
- He died on 27 Feb. 1978 Due to lung cancer and was buried in Graaf-Reinet on 11 March 1978.