Black Consciousness Movement
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Popo Molefe: From politics to fixing potholes
The struggle stalwart debunks narratives about racial discord in South Africa
How ‘shantytown’ priest Gustavo Gutiérrez changed the world
He developed liberation theology, rooted in the lived experience of the oppressed, and committed to transforming unjust social and political structures
Why Steve Biko still matters
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…
How Cabral, Fanon and Freire shaped the struggle against apartheid South Africa — and still inspire
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…
Let us not allow FW De Klerk’s death to tear us apart
His blanket apology did not cast him as a man of principle but as a man of cowardice
Bishop Emeritus Rubin Phillip: The guerilla priest
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
What comes after nationalism in Africa? A luta continua
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…
Finally, a biography of Tiro
The anti-apartheid activist died when he was only 28, but he still inspires students
Letters to the Editor: September 21 to 27
Our readers write in about: violence, foreign business, the ICC and Syria
Our True Humanity — Ramaphosa delivers Biko lecture
The president has called on South Africa to regain its humanity and moral compass
BCM women led from the front
The goal of black consciousness was social and psychological liberation for both sexes
A name change would be pointless if Rhodes still coddles white supremacy
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"
Biko book takes a few liberties
BC iconography book is thorough despite some blindspots
Biko’s vision of freedom must be kept alive – especially now
His murder reminds us that many people still live under the conditions engineered by apartheid
The Black Consciousness Movement commemorates Steve Biko
The Black Consciousness Movement commemorates fallen struggle hero Steve Biko at Kgosi Mampuru prison in Pretoria.