The anti-apartheid struggle hero, founder of political party the PanAfricanistCongress, 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 PanAfricanistCongress.
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He was unconditionally released from prison in 1990, just days after the ban on the African National Congress and the PanAfricanistCongress was lifted.