On September 12, 1977, Stephen Bantu Biko, leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, died in police custody. He is a world famous symbol of not just resistance but Black resistance against ...
Forty-seven years after his death, Stephen Bantu Biko’s ideas continue to influence the minds of black politicians, scholars and artists. The contemporary jazz band iPhupho L’ka Biko named themselves ...
The death of global civil rights icon Nelson Mandela this week has sparked hours of coverage, including some welcome (and unwelcome) revisitation of Apartheid’s history and impact. While the lion’s ...
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has announced that it will on Friday enrol the reopening of the inquest into the death of anti-apartheid activist and Black Consciousness Movement founder and ...
In the 1960s, the apartheid state, while managing a project of black division, was creating tribal states called Homelands. The Eastern Cape was divided into two states of AmaXhosa people. These were ...
This year marks the 46th anniversary of the death of Steve Bantu Biko, and it seems he is fast fading from the country’s memory. I have often written of the importance of history and memory, not only ...
Stephen Bantu Biko died 48 years ago on 12 September 1977. Charlie Kirk died a few days ago on 10 September 2025. They both died at the age of 31. Both, for very opposite reasons, were regarded by ...
The son of the late struggle icon Steven Bantu Biko is accused of failing to pay his former employee a whopping R720 000. The company owned by Hlumelo Biko, whose mother is a well-known businesswoman ...