The founder of Black Consciousness kept evolving; by the time of his terrible death he was moving away from hard-line racial isolationism. DREW FORREST traces his development in a seminal collection of writings
Amílcar Cabral was assassinated 50 years ago today. His thought, which sometimes arrived in South Africa via a circuitous route, speaks to our current crisis with undiminished power.
His blanket apology did not cast him as a man of principle but as a man of cowardice
From his adventures with Steve Biko to his support for shack dwellers in KwaZulu-Natal, Bishop Emeritus Rubin Phillip has always walked the talk of radical Christianity
There are a number of cases in the past decade where Africans have managed to push the conversation beyond liberal reforms as a political goal or did not spent all their energies on the politics of nostalgia, harkening back to a simpler time of national liberation or charismatic leaders. Young people, a generation with no […]
The anti-apartheid activist died when he was only 28, but he
still inspires students
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The president has called on South Africa to regain its humanity and moral compass
The goal of black consciousness was social and psychological liberation for both sexes
The facts not in dispute are that Cecil John Rhodes was an “arch-imperialist and white supremacist who treated people of this region as sub-human"
BC iconography book is thorough despite some blindspots
His murder reminds us that many people still live under the conditions engineered by apartheid
The Black Consciousness Movement commemorates fallen struggle hero Steve Biko at Kgosi Mampuru prison in Pretoria.
The true worth of the political philosophy is immeasurable, especially in the electoral sphere, argues Itumeleng Mosala.
It’s hard to ignore the tragic demise of a movement that held and had so much meaning and potential.
The high court in Johannesburg has found in favour of the family of Steve Biko and halted the auction of the autopsy into the cause of his death.
Political consolidations, if done properly, are the lifeblood of both opposition and ruling party life, writes Hlumelo Biko.
In September we remembered significant quotes by Steve Bantu Biko. On what would have been his 67th birthday, we revisit his influence on politics.
There has been little real progress towards Africanising our education system.
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/ 6 December 2007
Holding the reigns of the ox-wagon that is pulling his father’s coffin, Nkosinathi Biko sits alone and solemnly among the masses of people. Surrounded by a throng of supporters, angry and tearful, he cuts a figure of solitude. A hero of the struggle is dead — but now lives on through the work of the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg.