David Sibeko

David Bambatha Maphangumzana Sibeko (26 August 1938 in Johannesburg, South Africa – 12 June 1979 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)^[1] was a South African political activist. Known as the "Malcolm X of South Africa", he began his political career as a journalist for the black South African magazine Drum. During his tenure with that magazine, he became a leading figure within the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (South Africa).^[2] During the 1970s he headed the United Nations Observer Mission of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in New York City and used this position to popularize the PAC, particularly among African Americans. In 1979 Sibeko was partially successful in a leadership coup against Potlako Leballo. However, he failed to get support from the Second Azanian People's Liberation Army, recruited from the 1976 student protest generation, and was shot dead during an argument with them at his flat in Oyster Bay in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 12 June 1979.

David Sibeko (1969)

See also

• Apartheid
• Sharpeville Massacre
• Black Consciousness Movement
• Pan Africanism

Further reading

• Leeman, Lieutenant-General Bernard, "The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania", in AFRICA TODAY A Multi-Disciplinary Snapshot of the Continent in 1995, edited by Peter F. Alexander, Ruth Hutchison and Deryck Schreuder, The Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University Canberra, 1996, pages 172–195 ISBN 0-7315-2491-8.
• Sampson, A. South Africa 1978–1979. Johannesburg: Black and Gold.