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Onkgopotse Tiro was a forerunner of the Black Consciousness Movement. After he was expelled from Turfloop, he taught at Morris Isaacson High School in Soweto. He was killed by a parcel bomb in Botswana in 1974. Photo: Sunday Times/Gallo Images

A speech with a galvanizing effect

A new history of student politics at Turfloop in the 1970s shines light on student activist Tiro

Anne Heffernan