Thando Sipuye

Ka-Soko’s contribution must be highly commended, particularly as Sobukwe’s name, memory and legacy continue to be side-lined and silenced in mainstream political fraternities, public discourse, media narratives and academia, even in this significant year commemorating the 40th anniversary of

Significantly, Mama Sobukwe receives this long-overdue honour in this year marking the 40th commemoration of the death under banishment of her husband, founding president of the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania and a liberation philosopher par excellent, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, and exactly a d

In democratic South Africa there is neither democracy nor justice when it comes to narrating critical historical events and moments. There is rather a subtle consistent perpetuation of particular memories as less or more valuable and significant than others.

Today, 27 July 2017, marks the 90^th birthday of Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe, the forgotten, ignored and erased ‘Mother of Azania’ who has endured unspeakable suffering, struggle and pain.