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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Shortly after the protest the regime banned the African National Congress and another liberation movement, the Pan Africanist Congress.

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He was unconditionally released from prison in 1990, just days after the ban on the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress was lifted.

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ANC's strong Africanist element sees the country as essentially one run by blacks, with whites, if they wish to join in, adapting to African cultural and political traditions.

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Mike Muendane of the radical Pan-Africanist Congress told the crowd that it was a dishonour to call South Africa a free country when children can be killed with impunity.

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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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