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PAC remembers Robert Sobukwe─── KATLEHO MORAPELA 10:00 Wed, 27 Feb 2019
Today in history, the founder and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, passed away in the Northern Cape’s capital city, Kimberley.
The iconic founder of the PAC reportedly died at the age of 54 from lung complications at the then Kimberley General Hospital on 27 February 1978, having been banished to Kimberley after his release from Robben Island in 1969.
According to South African History Online, his medical doctors requested that he should be granted freedom of movement on humanitarian grounds, as he was banned to the Galeshewe Township, in Kimberley.
This proposal was, however, turned down by the authorities.
This day is celebrated by a number of PAC members as Sobukwe day.
The Kimberley Hospital was last year in September renamed after this struggle stalwart.
The Centre for Transdisciplinary Studies, in partnership with the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Trust, will this evening hold the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe tribute lecture at the University of Fort Hare.
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