Darkest Before Dawn

There are several accounts of Robert Sobukwe’s courageous role in contesting South Africa’s system of apartheid and of his incarceration on Robben Island after the Anti-Pass Campaign that led to the tragic events of Sharpeville in March 1960. Far less attention has been paid to the years the founder of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania spent in Kimberley, between 1969–1978, after his release f...