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I Write What I Like: Selected Writings

I Write What I Like: Selected Writings

… the presidency of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) , through to 1972, when banning orders imposed by the … drawn from the pseudonymous column Biko contributed to the SASO Newsletter under the name Frank Talk - a name that …

The National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness

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The National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness

… by leaders of the South African Student Organisation (SASO). Rachidi joined the BPC in 1972, and was elected …

Interview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi

Interview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi

… Act and became a defendant in the marathon trial of the SASO Nine in 1975-76. Found guilty of "committing acts …

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The Erasmus Commission’s report implicates Rhoodie, Mulder and van den Bergh in SA’s infamous ‘Information Scandal’

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SA signs the following international agreements: agreement concerning the establishment of diplomatic relations with Sao Tome &

Mahomed Dawood Barmania portrait

Mahomed Dawood Barmania

Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien

… the university-based South African Students’ Organisation (SaSo). In March 1973 SaSo initiated the formation of the South African Students’ …

Albert Newall portrait

Albert Newall

Quotes by Steve Biko

… Steve Biko for the South African Student's Organisation, SASO. "So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that … human dignity." From Steve Biko's evidence given at the SASO/BPC trial, 3 May 1976. "Being black is not a matter of …

Wendy Heather Woods portrait

Wendy Heather Woods

Law and order or terror and disorganization: presidential Address presented at the Black Sash National Conference held at Johannesburg, 1988

Law and order or terror and disorganization: presidential Address presented at the Black Sash National Conference held at Johannesburg, 1988

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Thomas Sankara, head of the Military Council of the Revolution in Burkina Faso, is assassinated in a military coup and replaced

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According to a report on violence published by the Black Sash Repression Monitoring Group, an estimated 11,000 persons have bee

Nise Bulelwa Malange portrait

Nise Bulelwa Malange

Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy portrait

Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy

Selfless Biko 40 Years On by Barney Pityana (City Press), 10 September 2017

… of what became known as the SA Students’ Organisation (Saso). I was invited to be one of the speakers. It was then … was to relieve Steve of the burden of carrying the load of Saso and allow him to concentrate on his medical studies. … we shared a house. I became full-time secretary-general of Saso, and we managed to persuade the American Board Mission …

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Steven Biko is arrested.

… the first president of South African Student Organisation (SASO), a black student’s organization that was focused on the …

Teboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini portrait

Teboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini

An exercise in Crystal-gazing: Address given by professor H.L. Watts at the Black Sash National Annual Conference held at Pietermaritzburg

An exercise in Crystal-gazing: Address given by professor H.L. Watts at the Black Sash National Annual Conference held at Pietermaritzburg

‘The conscience of white South Africa’: Celebrating the Black Sash, 60 years later by Marianne Thamm (Daily Maverick), 14 May 2015

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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses against Egypt in the final game of the Africa Nations Cup in Burkina Faso.

Col. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya

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Col. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya

… (BPC) and the South African Students Organization (SASO). Later, the ANC also began using Libya as a military …

Michael Guthrie Scott portrait

Michael Guthrie Scott

50 Facts on Africa

50 Facts on Africa

List of people banned under Apartheid

List of people banned under Apartheid

… 1950Sec. 9 (1)30 June 1974 31/7/1978 Elsie’s RiverFormer SASO president and student at the UWC.Exile Isaacs, Sedick … Cape Town Student at UWC and former regional secretary of SASO until banned in 1973; detained in 1974 and held for 146 … 31/7/1978 Restricted to Durban Administrative officer of SASO; theology correspondence student with the University of …

II - The Life of Steve Biko

… 1968 the all-black South African Students' Organisation (SASO) was formed with Biko as its first president.' When we … or of the system of Bantu education'. Together with other SASO office-bearers Biko travelled the country, visiting … 1973 Biko himself, together with other officials of SASO and BPC, was served with banning orders. Banning orders …

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SA’s Constitutional Court orders President Mbeki to provide the antiretroviral drug Nevirapine to pregnant women in state hospi

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Dorothy Fisher, SA’s first female heart transplant patient, dies, twelve years after she had received her new heart.

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SA’s Minister of Development Aid Gerrit Viljoen, announces that following allegations about the mismanagement of funds in the L

Janet Mary Cherry portrait

Janet Mary Cherry