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BiographyDavid Hepburn Craighead
David Hepburn Craighead was born on 18 December 1918, in Benoni, in what was known as the Transvaal Province (Gauteng). He was born to parents of English and…
Chapter 4 - ‘SASO on the Attack’ : Organisation, Mobilisation and Collective Action
… to explore the formation of the Black Peoples Convention (BPC) (see below) are cases in point. The initial relations … prime example of an organisation…
BiographyFrancis Wilson
Francis Aylmer Hunter Wilson is the oldest son of the anthropologists, Monica and Godfrey Wilson. He was born in May 1939 in Livingstone, Zambia. During this…
BiographyStanley Huette Uys
Stanley Huette Uys was born on 27 April 1922, in Coalbrook, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). His parents, Dirk and Francina, were members of the…
BiographyAnthony Richard Stubbs
Anthony Richard Peter Stubbs was born in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1923, and educated at Eton, at Balliol College, Oxford, and at the College of the…
South African Blues directed by Andy Metcalf and Produced by Silvia Davies, Broadcast by the BBC (1990) featuring Churchill Jolobe, Princess Patience, Robbie Sithole, Jonas Gwangwa
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… and hold positions in the Black People’s Convention (BPC), Steven Carulous and Jonny Iseel. By the mid 1970s the … Act. The following year the nine leaders…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… taken toward the formation of Black People's Convention (BPC). 11 March, NUSAS launches the Wages Commission at the … University of Western Cape. Steve Biko…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (Peter Abrahams) was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg’s largest Coloured and Asian slum, on 19 March 1919. Abrahams is a 'Coloured'…
BiographyAdam Glasser
Adam Glasser was born on the 20th September, 1955 in Cambridge, England, then later moved to Johannesburg, South Africa with his family where he spent his…
Joel Joffe
Joffe was born to a Jewish family on 12 May, 1932 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His father, Abraham Joffe, a businessman, had come from Latvia and…
BiographySatyandranath “Mac” Maharaj
Mac Maharaj was born on the 22 April 1935, the fourth of the eight children of Mr and Mrs NR Maharaj of Newcastle, Natal. He matriculated at St Oswald's School…
BiographyAmy Thornton
Amy Rietstein (now Thornton) was born in 1932 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). Both her parents were actively involved in the struggle, and it…
Anti-Apartheid Activism in Britain: The AAM, the BEM/BSC and the wider concerns of the Black community regarding anti-apartheid activism in Britain by Elizabeth Williams
ArchiveShort notes on the Black Peoples Convention
… Notes on the background of the Black Peoples Convention (BPC) …
ArchiveBlack Peoples Convention: Blueprint of the
… Memorandum discussing the BPC educational guidelines to develop Black Consciousness and …
ArchiveInterview with Ruth Mompati, by Julian Marshall, BBC Radio 'Focus on Africa', 23 May 1983
ArchiveLetter from Saths Cooper to My dear brothers and sisters
… Saths Cooper to members of the Black People's Convention (BPC) prior to a court proceeding. …
ArchiveA delegates account of the Black Peoples Co
… account of the Black People's Convention Congress (BPC), King Williams Town, 13-16 December, l975 and includes …
ArchiveBlack Peoples Convention: Paper on Policy
… March, 1974, at the National Council Meeting and includes BPC policy on internal relations, international relations, …
ArchiveB P C Organisation
… Mosibudi Mangena at a meeting of the NEC and Chairmen of BPC Branches, held in Braamfontein, on 9 June 1973, outlining …
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… of either the SASO or the Black People's Convention (BPC), organisations known collectively as the Black …
ArchiveThe Black Conciousness Movement, Black People
… One of the major decisions taken by the BPC was the establishment of an external office .This became …
ArchiveA blueprint for education
… The Black People's Convention (BPC) has drawn up a blueprint on education and intends to …
ArchiveCommissions Report: 1. Black Consciousness 2. Black Communalism
… Report prepared for the Black Peoples Convention (BPC) Conference at King Williams Town, 13-16 December 1975. …
ArchiveCircular from Zithulele Cindi, Secretary-General of the Black Peoples Convention, to Comrades
… in the press, and describing arrests and detentions of BPC leaders. …
BiographySheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)
Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel) was born in 1944* in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) to a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family. Her aunt and uncle…
BiographyBasil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira
Basil D’Oliveira (Dolly) was born on 4 October 1931, in Signal Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. According to South Africa’s racial laws, he was…
BiographyNkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was born on 27 January 1949. She received her secondary education at Amanzimtoti Training College until 1967 and began her tertiary…
The future society as seen by the Black Peop
… a number of articles dealing with a kind of society that BPC envisages. This particular article scans the total policy …