The 27th of February marked the 45th anniversary of the death of South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and founding member of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. At his prime, Sobukwe was perceived as a crucial advocate of an Africanist future for South Africa. He was unapologetic about only collaborating with Africans and in 1960, he organised and launched a non-violent protest campaign against pass laws which led to him being sentenced to three years in prison on grounds of inciting violence.  After serving his sentence, Sobukwe was relocated to Robben Island where he was subjected to solitary confinement for 6 years - without a tangible reason. He was then released and placed under house arrest until his passing on the 27th of February 1978. But reflecting on his sacrifice, his story is slowly fading away which begs the question of who and how we choose our heroes. Lerato Mbele speaks to Jackie Seroke, who is the PAC’s Secretary of Finance and Chairperson of the Pan Africanist Research Institute and Jackie Shandu, a pan Africanist and activist about Robert Sobukwe.