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

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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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