num_pages: 352
description: This title is the story of a remarkable man: Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. It is also the story of the friendship between Sobukwe and Benjamin Pogrund whose joint experiences and passionate debates chart the course of a tyrannous regime and the development of concerted black resistance. On 21 March 1960, Robert Sobukwe led a mass defiance of the pass laws of South Africa. He persuaded blacks to present themselves at police stations and demand arrest. A determinedly non-violent protest turned to tragedy when police opened fire on a crowd, killing 68 protestors at Sharpeville. It proved to be Sobukwe's last day of liberty. The protest was a turning point: Afrikaner rule stiffened and black resistance went underground. International opinion hardened against apartheid. Sobukwe, leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress, was jailed for nine years on Robben Island. He was then released into banishment and house arrest in the small town of Kimberly. He died there nine years later, in February 1978.
language: English
title: How Can Man Die Better....: Sobukwe and Apartheid
titlecomplete: How Can Man Die Better....: Sobukwe and Apartheid
genres: Biography, South Africa, Politics, Nonfiction, Race, Africa, History
ratings_count: 137
publisher: Peter Halban Publishers Ltd