How Sokoine’s death threw ANC into panic

Oliver Tambo feared the death of Prime Minister Edward Sokoine would deter Tanzania’s support to the ANC struggle against the South Africa’s apartheid regime. PHOTO | FILE

What you need to know:

  • In 1984, the party encountered a significant crisis when one of its members, Dumisani Dube, was involved in a tragic car accident that claimed the life of Edward Moringe Sokoine near Dakawa, in the Morogoro Municipality