SACP’s Mapaila claims apartheid regime favoured #RobertSobukwe

In what could get tongues wagging, the SACP’s Solly Mapaila has dismissed PAC founder Robert Sobukwe as someone who was favoured by the apartheid regime.

Mapaila was the main speaker at a dialogue celebrating the Rivonia Triallists at Liliesleaf Farm, Sandton, on Tuesday. Attended largely by SACP and ANC youth, the dialogue marked 29 years of Nelson Mandela’s release.

Launching a controversial attack on the late Sobukwe, one of the revered figures in the fight against apartheid, Mapaila said the PAC founder lived a better life on Robben Island and could not be forgiven for that.

Mapaila said he was airing these views on Sobukwe for the first time. “I’ve not said it anywhere else but it’s important that I say it to you,” he told his audience.

“Sobukwe left the ANC on the basis of its acceptance of white people. But, the thing that I said I’m going to