On his return later that year Alexander was a founding member and elected as first General Secretary of the Pan-Africanist Movement, a legal front for the PAC.
Alexander used Zeph Mothopeng's memorial service in 1990 to urge PAC supporters to intensify the armed struggle against the Nationalist Government, who had agreed to an initial sit down with the relevant stakeholders at the negotiating table.
[5] In 1993 he became chief negotiator for the Pan African Congress during South Africa's constitutional dialogue, but Patricia De Lille soon replaced him.
[2] Shortly after the 1994 elections Benny Alexander changed his name to Khoisan X as a political statement against South Africa's colonial past.
This he partly attributed to the historical assimilation of the KhoiKhoi and San communities into the Cape Colony's eurocentric ways of organising society:.
[7] In 1996 the PAC was looking to regain their image as a vanguard for Pan Africanism by inviting controversial religious leader Louis Farrakhan to South Africa.
He legally changed his name from Benny Alexander to Khoisan X, and acted as adviser to Adam Kok V, a Griqua leader in the Northern Cape.