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Robert Sobukwe - How can Man Die Better
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Description
The protest changed the course of South Africa's history. Afrikaner rule stiffened and black resistance went underground. International opinion hardened against apartheid.
Sobukwe, leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress, was jailed for three years for incitement. At the end of his sentence the government, fearful of his power, rushed the so-called 'Sobukwe Clause' through Parliament, to keep him in prison without a trial. For the next six years, Sobukwe was kept in solitary confinement on Robben Island, the infamous apartheid prison near Cape Town.
On his release, Sobukwe was banished to the town of Kimberley with very severe restrictions on his freedom. He died there nine years later in February 1978.
This book is the story of this South African hero - the lonely prisoner on Robben Island. It is also the story of the friendship between Robert Sobukwe and Benjamin Pogrund whose joint experiences and debates chart the course of a tyrannous regime and the growth of black resistance. "
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
406
Release Date:
2006-11-17
Publication Date:
2006-12-15
Publisher:
Jonathan Ball Publishers
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1868422658
ISBN13:
9781868422654
Weight:
616 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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