AGREEING WITH BIKO, DISAGREEING WITH ANOTHER WRITER’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE FATHER OF BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS
Elson Kgaka takes umbrage with a recent article by GSMN columnist Sandile Memela. I agree with Steve Biko. I disagree with the writer’s conclusion. Biko defined Black Consciousness not as pigmentation but as a mental attitude — “an attitude of mind, a way of life” committed to emancipation from all forces that seek to use […]
THE PRESENT AS CURRENT HISTORY
The turmoil of the emergence of a new era in world history is upon us, as in the turbulent years of the 1980s. These are not “normal times.” This time is reminiscent of the months just before the sudden fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989, followed by the “unthinkable” dissolution of the Soviet […]
WHEN KNOWLEDGE, MEMORY AND MUSIC CONVERGED AT THE ICONIC FORT HARE UNIVERSITY
Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga is assisted with the doctoral hood at the University of Fort Hare’s Spring Graduation in Alice on Friday, 2 October 2026. Image: FORT HARE UNIVERSITY, supplied via IOL/Daily News. There are occasions when an event appears to be about one thing, yet reveals something much larger. The University of Fort Hare’s Spring […]