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1946-1977

Stephen Bantu Biko

… Introduction Stephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa … grievances against the Apartheid state. Thus it was that…

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Bomwana Biko

… Bomwana Biko …

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1944

Khaya Biko

… Early life Khaya Biko was born in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape in 1944, the second of four children of Mzingaye Biko, a police officer and later a clerk,…

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Biko Bomwana

… Biko Bomwana …

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1950

Peter Jones

… by Khuthala Nandipha for 'City Press ', September 2007. " Biko’s comrade-in-arms still working to improve the lives of rural … weeks after his death,” Peter…

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1952

Tiyani Lybon Mabasa

… his school years, Mabasa participated in the SASO’S activities and got involved in the Student Christian … he joined the Black People’s Convention (BCP) led…

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1917-1998

Winnie Motlalepule Kgware

… students in their protests against the Government’s restrictions on campus. One of her early acts at the … body of the black consciousness movement led by…

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1922

Sir Sydney Kentridge

… on to attend Exeter College in Oxford on an ex-serviceman’s grant, receiving first-class honours in jurisprudence. He … into the brutal killing in police…

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1953

Nandisile Thoko Mpumlwana

… of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) alongside Steve Biko , she was involved in political activism and promotion … that gender equality was a factor…

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1956

Dikobe Ben Martins

… Township in Johannesburg. He attended school at St Joseph’s School in Aliwal North, Bechet College in Durban and … he was charged and acquitted for producing…

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1938-1979

David Sibeko

… Johannesburg . He received his schooling at the St Cyprian's Anglican School in Sophiatown, and the Johannesburg Bantu … after the death of the Black…

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1951

Helen Zille

… Helen Zille attended school at St. Mary's Waverley in Johannesburg . She obtained a Bachelor of Arts … correspondent for the now defunct Rand Daily Mail ,…

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1936-2012

Dr. Neville Edward Alexander

…  in East Africa, former slave Bisho Jarsa  (Neville’s maternal grandmother) had been freed off the coasts of … in the Black Consciousness Movement  (BCM). In…

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1946-2014

Mafika Pascal Gwala

… in South African life, led to a radicalization of Gwala’s generation, a movement that would mature in the late 1960s … in Marrianhill, Natal Province under…

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1923-2004

Anthony Richard Stubbs

… college, and worked diligently to have him sent to King's College, London, to be prepared for the post. When the … University of Fort Hare. Among those…

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1933-2001

Donald James Woods

… in the same working area in violation of the government’s policy of segregation. The editorials of the Daily Dispatch … James ‘Jimmy’ Kruger requesting the…

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1941-1978

Rick Turner

… by his mother Jane. Turner was a boarder at St George’s Grammar School, a private school in Cape Town run by the … philosophy. Soon after he arrived in…

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Professor Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu

… Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu’s activism in the struggle began in the 1960s. Nengwekhulu alongside Steve Biko and others broke away from National Union of South…

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1941-2013

Wendy Heather Woods

… of imprisoned activists. It was not until they met Steve Biko , leader of the Black Consciousness Movement that she … of the realities of life under…

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1946-2006

Strinivasa “Strini” Moodley

… eventually drew pioneers of Black Consciousness like Steve Biko . Biko and Moodley subsequently became good friends. Despite … not active in student politics…

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1945

Paul Stopforth

… Inspired by the death of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko in 1978, the artist created one of his most recognised … the portraits of the security…

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1920-2002

Frances Rix Ames

… ). In 1964, Ames became the first woman to receive UCT’s Doctor of Medicine degree before becoming Head of the … dictate to them at the expense of their…

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1947

Dr Gurunathen (Guru) Kistnasamy

… of apartheid was assassinated. Soon after Dr Verwoerd’s death a special assembly was conducted at school. The … Rob Davies and others. Kistnasamy later met…

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1949

Sadecque Variava

… family was steeped in anti-apartheid politics, and Variava’s brothers Haroon and Yusuf also became heavily involved in … (SASO). Variava made a point of…

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Ben Khoapa

… return to South Africa, Khoapa became involved with Steve Biko and other youth in the Black Consciousness Movement. He …

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1950

Dr Sathasivan “Saths” Cooper

… along ethnicity. Politics gained the upper hand in Cooper's life as he soon found himself liasing with other students … Through campus politics Cooper met…

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Harry Moyaga

… (qv.), Bill Ainslie and Fikile Magadlela, it was Moyaga’s mother who played the dominant role in his formation as an … the Black Consciousness movement as…

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1943

Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin

… was started at the Sisulu home, which she attended. Joyce’s involvement in the boycott was her initiation into the … Joyce secretly went to Durban where she…

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1953

Mashudu Jonathan Mudau

… the 1976 uprisings. Mudau was arrested after a Steve Biko commemoration in November 1977 and was subsequently …

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Traci Mackie

… move to South Africa. The family settled in King William’s Town , Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province ), after a brief … of the country for the first time,…

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