🇿🇦WHO WAS ROBERT SOBUKWE? Americans React "Remembering South African Revolutionary Robert Sobukwe"
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We are Steve Bantu Biko, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, Winnie Mandela, Chris Hani, Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Shaka Zulu, Hintsa, Mosheshoe, Sekhukune, we are equally Malcom x, Frantz Fannon, Kwame Nrumah, Haile Selassie, Robert Mugabe, Mohami Gaddaffi, we are Thabo Mbeki, Martin Luther King and Marcus Garvey we are Aretha Franklin and Miriam Makeba, we Umar Ifatunde Johnson and Julius Malema, we are Tracy Chapman, we are Bob Marley. We are Zola and 2pac Shakur. We are Boys in the Hood and Yizo Yizo. We are Brooklyn, we are Soweto.
Goosebumps!!
🎯💯 “Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers” -Tupac
Wow that's great. You remind me of 1988 in Harare, Zimbabwe, at The Human Rights Concert against Aparthied. I saw Tracy Chapman and I felt her through her songs.She is indeed a revolutionary, I also got to see Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel and many others on that day.
😥😥❤❤😭😭😭 Love you so much for this
@@kenchagos love you too
Thank you for reacting to Sobukwe's documentary and sharing his legacy.
"Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Afrika. Come and sit under its shade and become, with us, the leaves of the same branch and the branches of the same tree." - Robert Sobukwe
You’re welcome.
You guys don't understand how happy I am with what you have just done here, not even South African history teaches the majority about Prof Sobukwe. Thank you Demouchets! Izwe Lethu!
You are welcome!
True and its so sad. I learned about him in high school through a friend who was doing history (and a bit more about him and his story when I visited Robben Island).
My uncle fled South Africa in 1976 after the school protests and never returned. In the early 1990's i watched a documentary by a english reporter about 500 South African men who were killed and barried in a mass grave in Zambia at the end of the documentary all the names of the men came up and i saw my uncles name. My heart sanked.
My grandmother and mother was heart broken as they were hopeful of his return.
Oh my word. That is terrible. I'm so sorry for your loss💔. Is there a link I can follow or some key words I can search to learn more about this?
@@MfezekoMatshoba So sorry for your loss.
I remember my father's passbook. It had to be signed every week to allow him to go to work. If it was not signed be arrested. Blacks had to get permission to move around their country and at what times. If out of time specified he would be arrested. We cry for lives lost but their braveness and love for South Africa assured our freedom and bravery. Viva to all the heroes! Viva!
Viva!!
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Growing up, my mother graphically told me about the dompas and all the stories that came with it... I also salute these unsung heroes, viva ✊🏽
I saw one at first hand recently and apparently it belonged to my great grandmother! The thought of our people having to carry pass in their own land is still baffling for me💔
🥹 We can’t even imagine what that was like. Brave people indeed!
Rest In Power Robert M Sobukwe 🇿🇦✊🏾.
This video made me cry, Sobukwe was great, even Biko called him ' God '.
Who is cutting onions in here? As many times as I have watched and read the Sobukwe story, I always cry because we were robbed of such greatness.
I am an Africanist like him, I was convinced in 1991 after my dad told me about Sobukwe and what he stood for. Unfortunately, the ANC is doing all it can to erase him from history. The same way they tried to erase Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. I love Africa and Africans (wherever they were born). God bless Africa and Africans 🌍💖
❤️❤️ Much love sister!
Sobukwe was seen as far more dangerous to the regime than many.
The other prisoners (Mandela, etc) were not allowed to communicate with him on Robben Island.
The PAC's armed wing Poqo (Xhosa : pure) was the most active in the Western Cape (the heart of the historic colony) in the 60s including events like the Paarl insurrection.
A section of the M3 highway going into Cape Town toward District Six side, was renamed Philip Kgosana in honour of the route the 1960 march took from Langa into town.
Thank you for this! I travel that route almost everyday I ddnt even know who kgosana was😢
We have to teach our black children our history. A hug from Sao Tome and Principe
Our father. Prof Mangaliso Sobukwe. The most dangerous prisoner as per John Voster. Such a soft and selfless man. Afrika for the Afrikans, Afrikans for humanity and Humanity for God. Izwe Lethu✋
Family, you’re so right. American history is so like the South African one. You need to get to South Africa and feel that history properly too.
Working on it!
27:58 I know the history of Sobukwe, but listening to it once again I become so emotional with tears running down my face. Sobukwe was more powerful than Nelson Mandela, in Robben Island he was kept seperate from Mandela and his crew. On the prison register his was registered as NUMBER ONE, they didn't want to write his name. That gesture of picking the soil (Umhlaba) was a message to other prisoners that THIS IS OUR LAND (Izwe lethu).
Same here. This man a giant!
Same here😢
Wow! Its known that the people to fear most are the ones who are the most softspoken (I'm not saying he was softspoken in the fight).
Awu madoda ,uMsuthu, lisa , canzi, mfene, hlango mvelweni ,sanzanza Rest in Power Tata... Pan africanist Izwe lethu Ma'afrika ✋✋poqo akalahlwa
The reason why you didn't learn about Robert Sobukwe is probably because he was the leader of the PAC. Most of what the world learns about SA politics is centered around the ANC. But the truth is that many organisations , including the ANC , fought for our freedom . The PAC , the UDF and their student movements were actually on the forefront and lost many of their young cadres in the struggle for our freedom .
The truth in this
And Steve Biko's Black Consciousness Movement
I appreciate you my Brother and my Sister. I am touched by you exploring our history in South Africa. I have always followed Malcolm X, Martin Luther and Marcus Garvey.
20:50 Yes the numbers scared the government, because no matter how much ammunition they had, most South African who fought apartheid were willing to sacrifice themselves for the fight. So they knew that eventually we would win.
I remember hearing my grandfather who lead a regional fight against apartheid told me that, in 1974 there was a police officer who was beating up a black woman on the street, when he and his three friends saw this they ran to try and help this woman, and he drew a gun on them and threatened to shoot them. When he said this the neighbors came running out and surrounded the cop, about 18 people surrounded him.
The cop than fired a shot in the air and said he is giving them a final warning, where one of the people replied "The gun you are threatening us with can shoot only 5 rounds so only 5 of us will die, the rest will make sure you they deal with you" After hearing this the cop left the woman alone and the crown open space for him to run away.
Actually, the decisive organisation in the South African struggle was the South African Communist Party. It was the first to call for a Black Republic in 1929, it was banned in 1950, 11 years before the ANC and PAC
SA there's a book for you two, it's called 'How to die a better men' by Robert Mangaliso Sebokwe aka Prof. Much respect. There are still a lot questions that haven't been asked nor debated. In current day, the South African youth is there biggest threat to the country, the unemployment is a ticking time boom. I'm from SA. Thank you for this reaction.
Also checkout, “I write what I like”
Yes! My aunt was Sobukwe' right hand lady. First woman tortured in solitary confinement #4 prison. Yes folks. Europeans, Boers and Jews . They shoot to kill Black people in their homeland.
The black man is the dynamic Philp Khosana. The Leader of the Cape branch of PAC.
Too much!!
Izwe Letho! Our land!
Onkgopotse Abram Tiro was another struggle icon who many have forgotten due to political manipulation.
What am learning from this is that us South Africans have always been curious to learn,knowledge hence a typical South African will know more of what is happening around the world, apartheid system was trying to diminish our curiousity,they actually wanted to make us "useless" in a way.
Hence they kept changing the school curriculum. Our grandparents spoke English eloquently but apartheid government wanted to eradicate that (Afrikaans in schools)
I can see how emotional you are sister and thank for seeing how far South African cames from I'm 40 years but tell today I get so emotional every time when I see where we come from as a South African so thank you for this 🙏
You’re welcome, family!
Sobukwe was poisoned in Robben island, somehow people skirt around that and call it a sudden lung cancer. But knowing full well the tactics of the then government of the apartheid regime, this is a very spot on analysis of his cause of death.
This is so emotional, I wished I had seen y’all reaction earlier & engaged. South African history is very unique & distinct from most parts of the continent due to its settler colonial character.
There is many historical events & many heroes of the struggle that are celebrated here in South Africa & have many objects named after them in their honour, like hospitals, schools, airports etc. Mandela became the most famous one of them all because the movement decided after his trial together with his comrades that they will make him the face of the struggle.
It was not because he suffered or sacrificed more than others. The struggle for freedom had many heroes whom if you can read & research about, you would be left in shock about their contributions, their intellectual capacity, their courage, their determination & all.
I always feel like many people, particularly our African brothers who come over here as I have noticed to do wrongs things that destroy while telling us they helped us during the struggle, I feel like they really don’t understand the story of this country. It’s an emotional story, we are still fighting now, this country can’t fail. To let it fail would be to dismally fail those who sacrificed with their lives, their blood & their livelihood during the struggle. I wish everybody could just understand that just a bit.
I am pleased to see your interest in Ntate Robert Sobukwe as a person of interest for your reaction. I commend you for expanding this. Sobukwe was a giant par excellence. I am saying this not as a PAC supporter but as a well-read South African. I have read books on many struggle icons including "long walk to freedom". None of them come close to the book on the life of Sobukwe called "How Can a Man Die Better" written by Benjamin Pogrund.
Sobukwe was unmatched. He was a rare comet that glazes the a starry night's sky once in a millennium.
He was incarcerated for at Robin Island and kept in solitary confinement under a special law called "The Sobuke Clause".
All other political greats of that time including Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Siluslu, admired him although they would clearly not admit because he had a political ideology that contrasted their fundamentally.
He was intellectually more superior than all of them.
In 1972 Steve Biko decided to pay Sobukwe a clandestine visit when Sobukwe had been released under house arrest in Galeshewe, Northern Cape. When he had finally saw Sobukwe in person, he told his comrades that he saw "God".
When Sobukwe was other prisoners like Mandela could not greet nor talk to him as he was considered the most dangerous person in South Africa due to his political influence, convictions and intellectual gravitas.
Apartheid prime minister John Vorster once described Sobukwe as “a man with a magnetic personality, great organising ability and a divine sense of his mission”. Comparing him to Chief Albert Luthuli, he described the latter as “a lightweight”.
While his contemporaries in the ANC focused on multiracialism, Sobukwe originated the word that came to be accepted and used throughout the world: “nonracialism”.
"Prof” as he was affectionally known, Sobukwe contended that there was only one race. He took the view that there is only one race to which all belong and that is the human race. While his contemporaries in the ANC focused on multiracialism, Sobukwe originated the word that came to be accepted and used throughout the world.
Kimberley is my hometown, still stay here and I’ve heard about this gentleman since I can remember. Have been to his previous practice numerous times
In an interview with Oprah, Mandela said, "I didn't do it alone". There were many men and woman who fought against apartheid.
Next...I recommend Steven Bantu Biko and the women's march.
Steven Biko was a huge force. A real revolutionary 🙏🏼🙏🏼✔️✔️
Yes I
Thank you for this
We’ll check him out.
Stand up for the champion! The labours of our heroes past shall never be in vain.
We were taught about Sobukwe back in high school but it was just about a page or two mostly due to his contribution to the Sharpville March. However, I didn't know this much, I think there should be more mention and teachings of our fallen heroes not just Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko.
True m'Afrika, but even Tat'Steve they just try to make him a footnote. Not surprising Prof Barney Pityana, a close comrade of Tat'Biko is deleted in history. The Lion of Azania Ntate Mothopeng who masterminded the 1976 students protest. Crazy.
We agree.
I also what to know more about Kgaladi Masemola
There are quite a number of struggle hero's that were never mention. They are what we call unsung hero's such as Mama Lilian Ngoyi, Ntate Albert Luthuli etc. Even though Luthuli was named after one of the government building and mama Lilian was named after a street in Pretoria, there were never spoken of. Utata Nelson Mandela was not fighting alone, he had an army behind him. @The Demouchets please check out the story of Lilian Ngoyi . She was one of the women who marched to Union Building in 1956 against apartheid which is why we celebrate woman's day on 9th August in South Africa.
Will do!
I’m from Graaff-Reinet. uTata uSobukwe’s home town. Very little is spoken about him, he’s backround or what he stood for. It’s a case of the oppressors telling the oppressed’ history. There’s a museum close to my house dedicated to his intimate writings, life and history. Things you won’t find and see in books and documentaries. 🇿🇦👊🏾
You are right baby girl. The ANC has, and still trying to keep Sobukwe under raps, that's how powerful he was.
You guys are the best on your reactions.
Keep it up
Thank you.
"We take our stand on the principle that Africa is one and desires to be one and nobody, I repeat, nobody has the right to balkanize our land". 06 April 1959. PAC Inaugural speech.
This is the history i learned while in Kenya education system. It covered African history precolonial, colonial and Post colonial Africa intensely. Its never taught outside Africa. Keep it up in educating folks. You two do a great job always. Next time search for African leaders who resisted European rule..the likes of Koitarel Arap Samoieandd many others. There were tough African rulers prior to Colonization, they fought hard. You two are great panafricanists.
Viva Baba Sobukwe! Viva our hero!
Our history has so much pain , especially to natives .We dance to numb the pain
Hearing about it reopens apartheid inflicted wounds😭😭😭😭, the horrifying oppression, merciless and inhumane treatment we as blacks have to endure in our ancestral land.
🙏🏾❤️
I remember Biko and how he opened our eyes to apartheid
The Professor, my personal HERO - a Giant amongst us mere mortals. May he continue to rest in POWER!!!
I like you people. You are so interested in the history of Africa of whick most America don't bother to learn. But through channel many can learn something as a start.
Black SAns are revolutionaries will always want every black person to be free..✊🇿🇦Aluta continua ... struggle continues ..Steve Biko
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“We must, therefore, appreciate our role. We must appreciate our responsibility. The African people have entrusted their whole future to us. And we have sworn that we are leading them, not to death, but to life abundant”.
This quote by Robert Sobukwe questions the lots in the government of the day, this tells you how responsible leader Sobukwe was. More so he knew the characteristics of many leaders who did not conform to correct moral rectitude (by Thembinkosi)
Tsietsie Mashinini and Khotso Seathlole lead the June 16 1976, influenced by Mangaliso Sobukwe’s friend and cde, Zephaniah Mothopeng who was sentenced for 30 years in prison with the following cdes:
Moffat Zungu 7 years, Michael Matsobane 15 years, Daniel Matsobane 12 years, Marks Shinners 12 years, John Ganya 11 years, Benny Ntoele 10 years, Johnson Nyathi 10 years, Themba Hlatswayo 8 years, Goodwill Thlale 8 years, Julius Landingwe 8 years, Sithembele Khala 7 years, Goodwill Moni 7 years, Zolile Ndindwa 7 years, Jerome Kodisang 5 years and Hamilton Keke 5 years.
Standerton is my home town but nothing is named after this hero till today it's like he was never here
Sobukwe means father in-laws in kinyarwanda language from Rwanda
Thank you so much for this reaction!!!!!
Thank you for sharing. Sobukwe was an inspiration.
My family lived in Galeshewe when I was a child, I did my Primary schooling there. My dad still lives there..and my cousin was named Mangaliso after Robert Sobukwe.
ANC was not the only liberation movement of that time history owes us a lot of untold stories.
Thank you so much family for this powerful documentary of Mr Sobukwe
Also, the government made sure to erase all of his interviews expressing his ideologies to prevent the future generation from adopting his ideologies.
Fun fact, the apartheid government used black and white pictures and videos for all videos during apartheid to make it seem like it happened a long time ago
Bro even now, the black government is still suppressing this mens name
Thanks for this reflection, "Prof" Sobukwe was ahead of his time. "How can a man die better...." Benjamin Pongrud
As a African im super excited about this , i also recommend Thomas Sankara , Chris Hani and Steve Biko
Now this was the legend❤
During Sobukwe's time in solitary confinement took its toll on his health because he spent all that time smoking. They lied to other inmates and they said he is there because he has a disease that will infect them. They lied to us and made it seem like South African liberation struggle was centred around Mandela. They treated Sobukwe's legacy like it never even existed. Hence that is why none of his footage is available for us to consume.
Steve Biko was all about Black Consciousness and Black Love.❤
You can feel his soft determined nature... Also look for Tsietsi Mashinini history a young man responsible for june 16. South Africans were fighting
What happened to Tsietsi? I remember watching a documentary where his mom didn't even know where he is
@@Camagwinee he died. I think in America. He was murdered, but there was never a case. Everything was just secretly wrapped up, they made it look like he was a drug addict.
We'll check it out.
Viva Robert Sobukwe, Aluta Continua
Thank you for putting out this video about the life and struggles of Mangaliso Sobukwe ❤
A true Leader of our struggle for freedom ❤
Guys this means alot for you guys to react to this man documentary.
The influence of black Americans was massive . That why u guys must understand the influence you guys have to the world. It's massive
What is worse is if you can ask our South African teenagers who was Sobukwe they also don't know about him like you guys our present government is making sure this history is not told
Really we will never forget!! I am always asking myself why? My eleven years old son asking me so many questions. Why other races hate us, why our color is a curse or a sin in face of the world, why are they recognise us (blacks) as not human beings? But I still believe one day we will be free and their turn is around the corner. Now it's time for unity, all black people from all the corners of the world. Unity will bring us peace, unity will bring us harmony. Simangaliso Sobukwe, Bantu Biko, Solomon Mahlangu, Nokuthula Simelane, Mbuyisa Makhubu, Hector Peterson, Thembisile Hani, Nomzamo Madikizela, Zinzi Mandela, Fort Calata, Mathew Gone, Sicelo Mhlawuli, Sparrow Mkhonto and others who fought fearlessly against apartheid system, against hatred towards black people, the struggle continues.
What the lady said about starting off nonviolent is so true. Nelsom Mandela himself said you cant fight armed, violent police by speaking. At some point dialog is irrelevant when you are under attack
Thank you for this
Your skin is glowing sister. Love it ❤
I remember hearing that they were afraid of Robert Sobukwe.. The most tragic part is that in his isolation, not even the Police spoke a word to him and that Psychologically affected him. Soon after that.
Thank you
he is big in SA. a lot of things are named after him.
I'm from south africa I didn't know about him😢. Thanks guys
Sebukwe was prisoner number one of robben island,he even had a law that only made for him after he was arrested it was called the sebukwe claws,no one in the history of South Africa was a threat to the white government than that guy, they talk about him because he was not an ANC member
Thanks for this🙇♂️.
You're welcome.
The 69ppl who died were shot from the back, meaning they were not attacking anyone, they were running away
Hi guys. Yes there were many great leaders (men & women), great people, who fought for our freedom. Steve Biko, Winnie Mandela, Chris Hanni, etc.
We are James Baldwin, Mama Maya Angelou🖤🖤
They feared Sobukwe so much they didn't allow him to interact with other prisoners in Robben Island. They even said to the UN, when asked how many political prisoners they have, they said only 1, Robert Sobukwe!
Izwe Lethu!! ✊🏾
When they put him on robin island he was living his peaceful life i mean waking up looking at the sea view and the lands is quiet not working but reading books to gain more knowledge if he did them push up and marathon at that time he would have been back at township a muscle man but going away from your family that's a sad thing but living on quiet place like that everyday i would have been stronger than ever peaceful place.
My res building is named After him.
Group A
Robert Sobukwe
Peter Tosh
Malcolm X
2 Pac
Group
Nelson Mandela
Bob Marley
Martin Luther King
Biggie Smalls
Only Legends will understand
When you come to SA you can visit Robben Island. His house is still there
Its a long walk ✊🏽🦁
AMANDLA 👊🏿
We are the same people sis, you are also African like us ❤️
South Africa was denied the contribution of a lot of leaders. Steve Biko is one of the many. You guys should definitely learn about him if you haven't already.
Chris Hani is one the greatest leaders during the struggle. Please do a reaction on his documentary
Where are you guys? I don’t see new videos. Love you family and enjoy your content.
And after all that, we decided to forgive and they spat in our faces!!!
'Lets get out of the oppression Olympics' Ooof this is GOOD! Love from South Africa. I 100% agree
💯 Much love!
if you don't value the life of a people your first call to action in handling any issues concerning their community will always be shoot first and ask questions never.
Sad, but true.
Even today we have to get permission for a peacefull protest!. A few years ago i was part of a peacecul protest re service delivery. Ws were teargassed and shot at with bird shot! That is Cape Town lega cy...pls do a VIDEO OF ASHLEY KRIEL
Love an Peace Fam... Mrs Demochets mention or likend Sobukwe to MalcolmX... But i think you need to find one on Chris Hani... He was our Malcolm... Even his exit...
Will do!
Our history is always painful. 😢
Our history is very painful and men like ntate Mandela and bishop Desmond Tutu were wise enough to encourage unity. I can only imagine what would have happened if they didn’t at that time.
Another story that needs to be told is that of Steven Bantu Biko, who also led a "break-away" section of the Black Consciousness Movement from the ANC (the BCM was actually formed during the period when both the ANC and the PAC were banned). He too, was brutally killed by the erstwhile apartheid state police. His foremost book is titled "I Write What I Like".
Most freedom fighters are from the Eastern Cape province in South Africa but that's one of the most underdeveloped provinces even now in South Africa .. you can even look at the University of Fort Hare were most Freedom fighters studied it is thriving but still black students are still suffering .. but one thing that we can say about Fort hare that's one University that caters for black students although it's not that developed
today I have learned that Sobukwe comes from the same place as me Mofolo I didn't know thanks to the video
You should also do a review on Bantu Steven Biko❤
3:13 The name of the book is: "How can man die better." Brilliantly written book. The author is Benjamin Pogrund.