BENJAMIN POGRUND worked at the Rand Daily Mail from 1958 where he became deputy-editor. He was a reporter at the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960. Later he worked for a number of international newspapers. He has authored books on Robert Sobukwe, Nelson Mandela and the South African press under apartheid. In March 2019 he was awarded the Order of Ikhamanga by the President for his contribution to journalism and scholarship.
I am greatly privileged to have known him and to have fallen under his spell. His long imprisonment, restriction and early death were a major tragedy for our land and the world.' - ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU on Sobukwe On 21 March 1960, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe led a mass defiance of...
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