Anti-apartheid activist: Robert Sobukwe, leader of the Pan Africanist Congress, in his cell at the prison on Robben Island. Derek Hook and Leswin Laubscher’s book Darkest Before Dawn tells the story of the years after his release. Photo: Getty Images
At first glance, to draw a line from Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) founder Robert Sobukwe to the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) as putative political heir seems an easy one. There are both historical and ideological or principled parallels….