The Trial of President Robert Sobukwe At the trial in Johannesburg in 1960 for his part in having organized, lead and participated in the Pan Africanist Congress campaign of positive action against the pass law, Sobukwe refused to plead to the charges leveled against him and his colleagues , because he said, he did not recognize the authority of the court in which he appeared, nor did he recognize the laws under which he was charged as well as the white government responsible for making such laws, as the African people were not a part, to the governmental process of making and administering those laws. He emphasized that he felt no obligation to obey such laws. Addressing the court Sobukwe said: "It will be remembered that when this case began we refused to plead, because we felt no moral obligation whatsoever to obey laws which are made by whites, and are administered by whites, for an unjust law cannot be applied justly.We believe in one race only the human race to which we all belong.The history of the human race is a long history of struggle against all restrictions, physical, mental and spiritual, and we would have betrayed the human race if we had not done our share"
Posted on: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:02:50 +0000
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