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ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
… with Absolom Zithulele Cindi who was an activist in the black consciousness movement and later in the Azanian People's … School in Soweto in the late 1960s…
EventPhambili Ka Ntloko, national organiser of AZAPO, is born
… involved in the South African Students’ Movement (SASM), a black consciousness organisation for high school children. He …
No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa
… Content I - Introduction II - The Life of Steve Biko III - Black Consciousness IV - The Death of Steve Biko V - The Funeral VI …
Selfless Biko 40 Years On by Barney Pityana (City Press), 10 September 2017
… recalls the shock and grief he felt that day, and how the Black Consciousness Movement leader helped to shape a generation … conference at Rhodes University…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… its name and identity from township slang referring to black youth who travelled either sitting on the roof or … travelling to work and back-that is…
Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
… in protest should also be mentioned. As a response to a Black Consciousness call for black people to "go it alone", the Black Art Studios (BAS) …
EventApartheid police officers admit to the killing of Biko before the TRC
… role in the 1977 killing of Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). Biko was arrested on the … inflammatory pamphlets and "inciting…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… of the trip. No one from the caste had ever crossed the “black waters” and no one could, without compromising their … persons took place from 6 to 13…
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… the launch of the National Forum, an umbrella body of Black Consciousness groups and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). … Bute, E.L. & Harmer, H.J.P. (1997)…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… the control of the white authorities into the hands of the black activists. [3] As a result of the public relations … censors would not think to go and by…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… 27,000 inside a year, figures which give an indication of black workers’ mood. In February 1973 mass strikes erupted … the concept of unfair labour practices…
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… homelands, would be held on the same day. This meant that black and white would be voting on the same day, although in … that through the elections it would…
EventGideon Nieuwoudt dies
… of three anti-Apartheid activists of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) known as the PEBCO three. … for his role in the death of Steve Biko,…
Concluding Remarks
… to "truths made clear" as early as the beginnings of Black Consciousness. A neglect of overtly political art from 1968 … of information and insight include…
PlaceBantu Dramatic Society, Johannesburg
… by Herbet Dhlomo in 1933 and was devoted to promoting black theatrical development. It was housed at the Bantu … a club for educated Bantu men, and became a…
Biko’s legacy lives on in our nation’s history and culture by Nkosinathi Biko, 12 September 2012, South Africa
… TODAY marks the 35th anniversary of the murder of black consciousness leader, Bantu Stephen Biko. Arrested a healthy … grounded in the South African…
ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… at Meadowlands High School in Soweto, and joined the Black People’s Convention [BPC]. Following the … Soweto Action Committee within days of the…
Steve Biko: Gone but not forgotten by Robin Comley and Claire Keeton (Times Live), 12 September 2017
… Biko. He was elected president of the university’s first black Student Representative Council, on which Biko also … during the lengthy trial of nine student…
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… acting as a representative not only of the “show” but of black South Africans in general (“us”) leads him to blurt out … reflects on how the surveillance he…
Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, UKZN, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, Pambazuka News, 19 July 2017
… also due to the fact that Comrade Strini subscribed to the Black Consciousness philosophy, a philosophy that has articulated … relationship between memory…
Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows
… Gwala as the “exciting re-emergence of the respected Black-consciousness era poet.” “Crap,” says the published South … of poetry means to us today’, or ‘let…
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… Project: ‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s …
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… (article) Race and ethnicity in South Africa (article) Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) (article) Pan-Africanism …
ArchiveRemembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018
… the university’s kowtowing to state demands not to give a black professor ( Archie Mafeje ) a full-time post. For the … in the 1970s. He would also establish…
ArchiveFrom the Archive of Steve Bantu Biko by Mafika Gwala, 23 May 2019
… James Matthews and Mandla Langa. In 1973, he edited the Black Review, and his short stories, essays and poems have … newspapers, that Steve was regarded as…
Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom by Frantz Fanon, 1959
… are being thus made to brush the cobwebs off national consciousness to question oppression and to open up the … combativity while promoting and giving…
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… editor of the East London Daily Dispatch. He integrated black, colored and white editors by making them sit in the … surveillance. After the student uprising…
Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016
… icon Stephen Bantu Biko, founder of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). I do this from the perspective … stress his non-violence, Mangcu likens him to…
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… ancestor – bearing in mind that in the heyday of the black consciousness movement, there were a lot of gumbas, parties, … legislation that had the deepest of…
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
… worker controlled unions. On the other hand, a radical new black student movement emerged with a leadership oriented … among students and in communities, and…