Contributor(s): Author: Benjamin Pogrund "On 21 March 1960, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe led a mass defiance of South Africa\'s pass laws. ".
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.
This book is the story of this South African hero - the lonely prisoner on Robben Island.
He died there nine years later in February 1978.
On his release, Sobukwe was banished to the town of Kimberley with very severe restrictions on his freedom.
For the next six years, Sobukwe was kept in solitary confinement on Robben Island, the infamous apartheid prison near Cape Town.
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.
Sobukwe, leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress, was jailed for three years for incitement.
International opinion hardened against apartheid.
Afrikaner rule stiffened and black resistance went underground.
The protest changed the course of South Africa\'s history.
Police opened fire on a peaceful crowd in the township of Sharpeville and killed 69 people.
He urged blacks to go to the nearest police station and demand arrest.
Contributor(s): Author: Benjamin Pogrund "On 21 March 1960, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe led a mass defiance of South Africa\'s pass laws
