It is 38 years since black consciousness leader Steve Biko’s death. Have we lost a hold on his legacy, asks Tutu Faleni.
Veteran Black Consciousness activist Malose Rampou and Orania’s James Kemp unpack what they can learn from each other’s ideologies.
Jared Sacks’s distortions are compatible with the historical white left’s hegemony, writes Athi Mongezeleli Joja.
In September we remembered significant quotes by Steve Bantu Biko. On what would have been his 67th birthday, we revisit his influence on politics.
As white people we are raised to think we are central to everything, especially in relation to other races, writes Gillian Schutte.
Commentator Andile Mngxitama has crossed the line of freedom of speech into the ugly territory of incitement to violence, writes Verashni Pillay.
Were he alive today, the Black Consciousness activist would be one of Mamphela Ramphele’s most ardent critics, says Jared Sacks.
Steve Biko’s intentions were that black people should stand up for themselves and know themselves in their full power as participants in the world.
White people themselves have to debunk the myth of their supremacy. It can’t come from blacks, writes Malaika wa Azania.
Thank you to Andile Mng-xitama for "A dream not deferred, but defiled" (September 14).
In commemorating the 35th anniversary of the death of Steve Biko it is time to return to the politics of respect, consciousness and participation.
Remembering Steve Biko is increasingly becoming an act of "death by memory", as Gail Smith has observed, writes Andile Mngxitama.
Where have we gone wrong, asks Simphiwe Dana, in an open letter to Black Consciousness activist Steve Biko on the 35th anniversary of his death.
The complex world of South Africa’s favourite thinking diva.
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/ 29 September 2009
Here’s my thing. Black South Africa and white South Africa remain just that — two separate countries.