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South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… cultural activist who, from a young age, was part of the Black Consciousness Movement that championed the principle of … several literary journals, including…
EventSouth African artist Fikile Magadledla is born
… in nature. Magadlela was a member of and adhered to the Black Consciousness movement led by Steve Biko. He became very well … acquainted with the leader, who…
ArchiveChallenge to the churches: report of a consultation on the church and the liberation of Southern Africa, held at Mindolo, Kitwe, Zambia
… Transkei, Namibia,the role of students and the role of the Black Consciousness Movement. …
ArchiveMemorandum on BPC external affairs programme
… BPC foreign policy and the growing number of supporters of Black Consciousness who find themselves as refugees in foreign …
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… of colonialism for: “Nxele pioneered the spirit of Black consciousness among the black people of South Africa.” [109] End notes: [4]Julia C. …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… dusty township. During the next few weeks' dozens of other black townships across the country were involved in the most … Villiers: 'Deeply concerned…
EventDue to insufficient evidence South African police are cleared of charges with regards to the death of Steve Biko
… to devote himself to the "struggle", and founded the Black Consciousness Movement in 1969. Steve Biko was viewed with … inflammatory pamphlets and "inciting…
Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki delivered on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the death of Stephen Bantu Biko, 12 September 2007, Cape Town
… established SASO, the first organised formation of the Black Consciousness Movement, nine years after the long-established … they do not desire. Biko…
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
… had been done to Biko! It sent out a powerful message to Black South Africa: in Biko’s own earlier words “Black man, you are on your own.” White South…
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… Stutterheim in July 1968, 60 percent of the delegates were black. In retrospect, the significance of the UCM, which … degenerating into a segregated…
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… she exposed the real circumstances behind the death of Black Consciousness Movement leader Steve Biko. In the 1980s she joined the anti-Apartheid…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… to apparently broaden political representation excluded Black Africans – far from being a movement towards a more … the UDF began to focus on the planned…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
… in Northern KwaZulu. Inkatha emerged, along with the Black Consciousness Movement, to fill the vacuum in Black politics caused by the banning of the African…
EventIndian students join the Coloured schools boycott
… a number of Indian schools in Pretoria and KwaZulu-Natal. Black Consciousness groups also pledged their support. The action …
EventWinnie Mandela released from banning order and house arrest
… used her freedom from restraint to attend meetings with Black Consciousness (BC) leaders, to identify with their cause by … their trials and to make fiery…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… some activists in the Indian community were involved in Black Consciousness organizations and others associated themselves … limited powers and the same …
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… So too are their organizational skills and their community-consciousness – they were tired of staying at home, powerless … significant for thee role played…
Chapter 5 -The Character, Role and Significance of SASO
… that analyses in some detail SASO, or more generally, the Black Consciousness (BC) movement of the 1968 to 1977 period. Such … only four examples can be…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… Act (National States Citizenship Act) No 26: Required all black persons to become citizens of a self-governing … authority. As Minister Connie Mulder stated:…
Document 53 - Remarks of Comrade Dubois”, Internal Bulletin of the International Communist League (B-L), no. 2, May 1935
… to justify their haughty disdain or the slogan, "Africa - Black Republic", shows that the question, hardly having been … closely studied with the greatest…
EventUnrests break out in the Coloured townships
… schools in Pretoria and KwaZulu-Natal joined the boycott. Black Consciousness groups also pledged their support. In Lenasia, …
PlaceKatlehong
… Thokoza and Vosloorus, Katlehong forms the second biggest black township after Soweto. Katlehong is home and birthplace … Board (ERAB) the same year that the…
BiographyDr Hoosen Mia Haffejee
… his family whilst at the same time raising their political consciousness. In a letter to the Natal Witness, penned in …
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods is banned
… a deposit before they could publish. This became known as "Black Wednesday." On the same day, Daily Dispatch editor Donald Woods who was also a friend to the…
EventA resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort
… During the conference Aubrey Mokoena, a member of the Black People's Convention (BPC) and the Black Parents Association (BPA), delivered a speech about Black…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… of Education homelands ”” those territories reserved for black people and around which the principle of segregation in South Africa was organised; sometimes…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… government committed serious atrocities against the Black majority. A number of brutal measures were adopted by … Congress (ANC), Pan-Africanist Congress …
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
… By the late 1960s many black students increasingly began to feel the frustration and … could not serve the immediate or long-term aspirations of black…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… of the ANC. In the Eastern Cape, opposition to the new Black Local Authorities and proposed rent increases resulted in the revival of the Port Elizabeth…
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… out against the injustice of apartheid. He served in the Black consciousness Movement (BCM) and he was a member of Black South African Student Organisation,…