Robert Sobukwe

Late Politician, activist and first president of the PAC

Born 05-12-1924 in Graaff-Reinet

South African black nationalist leader Sobukwe insisted that South Africa be returned to its indigenous inhabitants ("Africa for the Africans"),charging the African National Congress(ANC)with being contaminated by non-African influences, he founded the Pan-Africanist Congress in 1959. He was the first president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). He was arrested in 1960, he spent the rest of his life in prison or under house arrest; passed away on 27 February 1978 due to lung cancer. Today he remains a celebrated political figure in the struggle for a democratic South Africa.