The anti-apartheid struggle hero, founder of political party the Pan Africanist Congress, was born in Graaff-Reinet in 1924.

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Col Ojukwu's Biafran aspirations where supported by Tanzania's first President, Julius Nyerere - the influential African statesman and pan-Africanist.

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When the Pan Africanist Congress , a small opposition party with less than 1% support in the last election, took up the cause of the squatters last month, the issue became politicised.

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