STEVE BIKO REMEMBERED BY HIS FOLLOWERS IN SONG, DANCE AND REVOLUTIONARY SPEECHES IN A CEREMONY AT HIS PRISON CELL
Throngs of Black Consciousness adherents – young and old – some carrying babies, gathered at the historic prison cell where Steve Bantu Biko was mercilessly murdered by the apartheid regime 48 years ago. Kgoshi Mampuru II Correctional Facility, formerly the notorious Pretoria Central Prison where anti-apartheid leaders were hanged at the gallows inside the premises, […]
BC PARTIES BURY THE HATCHET IN HONOUR OF STEVE BIKO
The leadership of the Black Consciousness Movement used the 48th anniversary of the death of its founder, Steve Biko in Pretoria on Friday to call for the unity of the organizations. The call was made by AZAPO’s chairman, Mr Amukelani Ngobeni and Black Consciousness Movement United (BCMU) president, Dr Hlulani Mabasa. They were speaking at […]
BC ADHERENTS TO HOLD A SERVICE INSIDE PRISON CELL WHERE STEVE BIKO DIED
The Black Consciousness Movement-United (BCM-U) and the Azanian Peoples’ Organization (AZAPO) have announced a joint program to commemorate the 48th anniversary of Steve Biko‘s death in detention in Pretoria on September 12. The announcement was made on the eve of the National Black Consciousness week marking the last painful but defiant days of Biko’s torture […]