Peace and justice congress
South africa socialist party!
Democratic parties
Author: Thami Ka Plaatjie
Reviewer: Sam Ditshego
Published 2019
Pages: 290
Publisher: KMM Review Publishing Company (PTY Ltd
The book is about the life of Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe from birth to the formation of the PAC as the author states in the conclusion of the book.
Sobukwe’s grandfather came from Lesotho. The Sobukwes were Basotho although they settled among AmaXhosa in the Eastern Cape.
The book confirms that Sobukwe was a brilliant student, disciplined, principled with a sense of humour.
The people who knew Sobukwe spoke about him in glowing terms. He loved Africa and African people and grew to become a committed and unflinching freedom fighter. Sobukwe was destined to become a great leader and his leadership potential was manifest at an early age although he didn’t become actively involved in politics until he was a student at Fort Hare University as he himself said during an interview in 1970 with Gail Gerhart.
The author quotes this interview in the book.
