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Student Representative Council at Fort Hare University in 1949. Zondeni Sobukwe was expelled from Lovedale College the same year for her participation in the Victoria Hospital Strike. After her expulsion, the Fort Hare ANC Youth League sent Sobukwe to Johannesburg to
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Sobukwe (née Mate) was born on July 27, 1927, in Hlobane, KwaZulu-Natal. Sobukwe was a trainee nurse at Victoria Hospital in
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Veronica Sobukwe: 90 years of struggle, suffering and sacrifice” Pabazuka News, 27 July 2017, Online.
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Brighton held a year-long exhibition dedicated to these women of the liberation struggle, by paying tribute to
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Sobukwe was one of the leaders, which caught the attention of
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