DIARY OF A BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS TOWER WHO SURVIVED APARTHEID BRUTALITY TO TELL THE STORY
August 18, 2025, marked 48 years since Black Consciousness father Steve Biko was arrested in a roadblock with his confidant and comrade, Peter Cyril Jones. The writer, a BC anti-apartheid activist and a contemporary of Biko, recounted the events of that fateful roadblock and that resulted in Biko’s assassination in police custody on September 12, […]
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 […]