STEVE BIKO WAS NOT A JOURNALIST
We have a crisis of definition in South African journalism and media fraternity. Everyone is called a “journalist.” The intern rewriting press releases, the opinion writer, the TikTok activist and the veteran columnist are all dumped into one job description. But when the backlash comes, a columnist is judged by a journalist’s KPI, and a […]
SEPTEMBER 11,TRUTH, AND NUCLEAR WAR
The 171st meeting of the International Peace Coalition, which convened on the 25th anniversary of the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, took up the vital question: How must one think in order to envision a pathway out of the crisis facing the world today? If one is to resist the temptation of giving up all […]
BIKO: A MAN OF HIS TIMES WITH A MIND AHEAD OF ITS TIMES
Our common sense has lulled us into thinking that men are now more civilised and would be more considerate, and more tolerant, in their handling of fellow humans, yet everyday reality tells us otherwise. The brutality of the wicked is unmasked before our own disbelieving eyes with uncompromising vigour and boldness. Babylon has engulfed us […]
THE ARCHITECTURE OF LIBERATION — STEVE BIKO AND THE UNFINISHED GRAMMAR OF FREEDOM
“The blacks are required to prove themselves as people.”— Steve Biko, I Write What I Like Annually, the 12th of September compels South Africa to commemorate the brutal martyrdom of Steve Bantu Biko within the precincts of a Pretoria prison cell in 1977. Yet, to reduce Biko Day to a mere elegy of sorrow or an […]
LOVE AND VIOLENCE: DR MBUYISENI NDLOZI’S AUDACIOUS BID TO BE THE BIKO-FANON OF A LOST GENERATION
I did not attend the launch. I watched it on TV. But this book matters. Not because it is perfect. Because it is necessary. Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi’s Love and Violence: A Revolt Against Permanent Juniority arrives at a moment when his generation – the born-free, the tenderpreneurs, the unemployed graduates, the greedy beneficiaries of democracy […]
WHITE POWER “BACK IN FULL FORCE”- BIKO MEMORIAL TOLD IN PRETORIA
ADHERENTS: Dr Hlulani Mabasa (front middle), President of the Black Consciousness Movement-United (BCM-U) with Biko followers The ugly head of white racism and capitalism was rearing its ugly head and thus worsening the lot of black people – a service to mark the 49th anniversary of the killing of Black Consciousness leader – Steve Biko […]