Jaki Stone Seroke is a political stalwart of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania. He started writing poetry in high school and used the medium to mobilise and raise consciousness of the 1976 student uprising. He was a state guest at Modderbee Prison, Johannesburg Prison and Robben Island maximum security prison during the apartheid era. He is a military veteran of the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) and published his memoir, Zwelethu-Our Land, in 2021.
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