Forty-eight years ago, on 12 September 1977, South Africa lost one of its most uncompromising voices for black liberation. Stephen Bantu Biko, the charismatic leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, died in police custody at just 30 years old. His body bore the marks of brutality, his voice was silenced, but his ideas—about self-reliance, dignity,… Continue reading On This Day They Killed Steve Biko—But His Ideas Refuse to Die
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Biko’s Intellectual Finesse Left Apartheid-Era Justice Minister Jimmy Kruger Paralysed
September 12, 1977 holds profound lessons of struggle through a thinker, a struggle icon, a human philosopher and a realist who was brutally murdered forty-six years ago. It brings closer the privilege and the presence of mind of having been in the same space, four decades ago, of one who, when he learnt that Steve… Continue reading Biko’s Intellectual Finesse Left Apartheid-Era Justice Minister Jimmy Kruger Paralysed
“Kill the Boer” Furore Exposes The Irrationality of White Fears As A Determining Factor In SA Politics
John Steenhuisen, the DA Leader, was three months old when the apartheid police massacred Hector Pieterson and other youths on June 16, 1976. His fellow DA leader, Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille, was 25 and working as a journalist at the Rand Daily Mail. Their fellow traveller Kallie Kriel, the Afriforum CEO and face of… Continue reading “Kill the Boer” Furore Exposes The Irrationality of White Fears As A Determining Factor In SA Politics