AFRICA FOR AFRICANS!
That was the clarion call of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in the 50s which was echoed into the next decade; the cry of an African soul in torment. The ascendancy of the Nationalist Part in 1948 had touched a raw nerve among the militant nationalists within the African National Congress (ANC). And then there was the breakaway of the PAC in 1959, with the emergence of Mangaliso Sobukwe as its leader. Sharpville, bang! Langa, bang! The PAC's campaign had started a bush fire. 'After the results of the Anti-Pass Campaign in Sharpeville and Langa,' Kgosana writes in his autobiography, 'non-violence as a weapon for resistence in South Africa was buried.' It was Kgosana who made headlines when he led thousands of anti-pass demonstrators in Cape Town on 30 March 1960, shoving aside his university studies. The inevitable exile followed after both the PAC and ANC were banned: exile either in foreign lands or in South African jails. Kgosana headed north, through the then Tanganyika, Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia, finally becoming a UNICEF officer in Sri Lanka. he is now back in South Africa. Here is a poignant account of a man and his times, re-enacting for us the drama of those turbulent days. It is an authentic voice, for he was right there on the frontline.
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