IMPORTANT MOMENTS IN BLACK RESISTANCE HISTORY IN FEBRUARY
This month’s black resistence history series is particularly special as it coincides with what the black world refers to as ‘Black History Month’. February this year marks 97 years since the inception of Black History Month. Black History Month was the initiative of the black thinker, teacher, historian and scholar, Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson author […]
BIKO: A LIGHT IN A TIME OF DARKNESS
Nothing describes and summarises Steve Biko’s brief but sufficient life on earth as does the title of the legendary Alice Walker’s 2007 book, We are the Ones We have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness. While he died at the tender age of 30, he would have turned 79 this coming December. […]
CURRENT POLITICAL BICKERING MISSES STEVE BIKO’S HISTORIC MISSION TO UNITE LIBERATION FORCES
From his arrest at a roadblock with Peter Jones, on August 18, 1977 in Grahamstown, Steve Biko was on a mission he described as forming one liberation movement. That was the last detention that Biko, the founding father of Black Consciousness, would be seen alive. He would only emerge weeks later when his mortal remains […]
JUNE 16, 1976: THE DAY THE CHILDREN ROARED
“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.” Each year, as June 16 approaches, our nation stirs with memory, pain, and a yearning to understand. The date, etched in blood and fire, is more than a memorial. It is a mirror—of what was, what is, and what still must […]
MEC MAILE’S ADDRESS AT THE WINNIE MANDELA PUBLIC LECTURE
“It is an honour to stand before you this evening, on this auspicious occasion of the launch of the Qhakaza: Pain Undefined exhibition curated by one of the most iconic fashion artists of our time, Gift Kgosierileng. This evening, we gather here in memory and celebration of a great revolutionary, Mama Winnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela, whose life and legacy […]
MYSTERY SURROUNDS THE GRUESOME FIND OF THE “PEOPLE’S DOCTOR” AND “STRUGGLE HERO” DR GOMOLEMO MOKAE’S BULLET-RIDDLED BODY IN HIS HOME
Anti-apartheid Struggle hero and a stalwart of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), Dr Gomolemo Mokae, has been murdered at his home Ga-Rankuwa Zone 1 home north of Pretoria. Dr Mokae’s lifeless body was found with evidence of a violent death. According to reports, a postmortem has revealed that the “People’s Doctor” was “shot on both […]