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Robert Sobukwe is an anti-apartheid activist that Mandela admires, but the two of them are eventually at odds with each other once Sobukwe becomes the head of the PAC. The PAC champions Pan-Africanism as the solution to apartheid, not multiracialism like the ANC. Like Mandela, he spends much of his life in prison and is an influential figure in the liberation movement.
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Robert Sobukwe Character Timeline in Long Walk to Freedom
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Chapter 30
...contradicts ANC’s multiracial perspective. Despite this rivalry, Mandela knows and respects the PAC president Robert Sobukwe and has other former colleagues in the party as well because they used to be...
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Chapter 33
...believes this is a tactical move, not one based on unity, and ANC doesn’t join. Sobukwe, the PAC president, turns himself into the police on March 21, but he unexpectedly gets...
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Chapter 52
...hour in the morning and half an hour in the afternoon for exercise. Mandela knows Sobukwe is somewhere in prison and hopes to see him and put aside any competition between...
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Chapter 53
...political offenders, and stories spread about people being abused in jail. Some political prisoners, like Sobukwe, are simply re-detained after their original sentences are up.
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Chapter 84
...news, broadcast on radio over the prison intercom. The first report is the death of Sobukwe, and more stories tell of government victories. John Vorster retires as prime minister, which the...
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