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BiographyMichael Kitso Dingake
Michael Kitso Dingake was born on 11 February 1928 in Bobonong Village, Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana). He attended the Bobonong Primary School…
ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
… 1960s. In 1972 he joined the Black People's Convention [BPC] when it was founded, and rose through the ranks, …
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… organisations like SASO and the Black People’s Convention (BPC). The formation of AZASO Black students at tertiary …
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… Black subjugation. In 1972 the Black People's Convention (BPC) was formed to organise Black people and promote …
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 3: An ancient African society: Egypt
The Nile river and its influence on settlement The tomb of Tutankhamen Way of life in ancient Egypt The spread of Egypt’s knowledge Together we will learn…
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 9 October 1940. She attended Inanda Seminary Secondary School, a boarding school for black South…
III - Black Consciousness
… its objectives. Drake Koka , first secretary of the BPC, described his organisation as 'not a movement of … only the occasion. The occasion was decided when…
ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… Soweto, and joined the Black People’s Convention [BPC]. Following the outbreak of the student uprising that …
EventCol. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya
… Libyan support were the Black People's Convention (BPC) and the South African Students Organization (SASO). …
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… was instrumental in forming the Black Peoples' Convention (BPC), as an umbrella political movement for groups sharing … Biko himself, together with other…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
Like all other Black ethnic groups, the Coloureds also fell victim to segregation and repressive legislations enacted by Colonial and successive governments…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… Council of Natal and public relations officer of the BPC; brother of Saths Cooper, imprisoned; detained 25.9.1974 … home was in Eldorado Park, Jo’burg…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
Like all other Black ethnic groups, the Coloureds also fell victim to segregation and repressive legislations enacted by Colonial and successive governments…
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
Liz Adriana Abrahams (nee Joseph) was born on 19 September 1925 in Paarl, in the Western Cape. She was born into a large family of 8 children, and attended a…
BiographyAlex la Guma
Alex la Guma is known as one of South Africa’s foremost activist writers, both for his reportage and fiction writing depicting the oppressive measures of…
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers was a linguist, writer, and educator. She born on 24 December 1900 on the farm Saxenburg, Kuilsrivier. She was the eldest of…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… Sharpeville Youth Club and the Black People’s Convention (BPC), Matsau was imprisoned for five years for attempting to … of nine South African Student…
BiographyEugène Ney Terre’Blanche
Eugene Ney Terre'Blanche was born in Ventersdorp to staunchly Afrikaner nationalist parents on January 31, 1944. The progenitor of the Terre'Blanche name was…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng), an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish…
Steve Biko: Gone but not forgotten by Robin Comley and Claire Keeton (Times Live), 12 September 2017
… was temporarily suspended for him to appear at the SASO/BPC trial. He was driving a hired car — a battered VW Passat … to me when he came up to testify in my…
BiographyPeter Clarke
Born in Cardiff Road, Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that his domestic worker mother and Dockyard handyman…
BiographyMongane Wally Serote
Mongane Wally Serote was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg on 8 May 1944, just four years before the National Party (NP) came to power in South Africa. His…
BiographyJack Mkhuseli
Mkhuseli Jack was born on the farm Mosskraal in Humansdorp on 31 May 1958. Jack was the second youngest of eight children of Fikile and Alice Jack, a domestic…
Mkhuseli Khusta Jack
Mkhuseli Jack was born on the farm Mosskraal in Humansdorp on 31 May 1958. Jack was the second youngest of eight children of Fikile and Alice Jack, a domestic…
BiographyRajes Pillay
Rajaluxmi Pillay (also known as Rajes) was born on 4 August 1944 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). Her parents were from Kimberley in the…
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
… Cindi and Kaborone Sedibe (also my co-accused in the SASO/BPC trial) replaced Aubrey and Strini in the B-Section cell … us to discuss with him when his exams…
Quotes by Steve Biko
… dignity." From Steve Biko's evidence given at the SASO/BPC trial, 3 May 1976. "Being black is not a matter of …
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
… development. Second, the Black Peoples Convention (BPC), which SASO had initiated, was about to be formed and … and others in SASO and the Black Peoples…
Article50 Facts on Africa
In the modern-day world the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece we present 50 facts about this continent that people may not…
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (Zakes), was born in Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1948 to Rose Nompumelelo, a nurse, and Ashbey Peter Solomzi Mda, a…