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at 10/31/2014

Friday Feature: 3rd Annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture, Europe

31^th October2014

Hugh Masekela Delivers the Lecture at LSE Diamond Biko By Hugh Masekela Bantu Biko’s life was yanked from us as brutally as was that of Lumumba, of Sobukwe, of Makana, of the Mxenges, of Sharpeville, of the children of 1976 and millions of people of the continent of Africa for whom there is nary a plague anywhere. But

at 10/24/2014

Steve Biko Memorial Lecture, Europe, 2014

24^th October2014

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at 10/17/2014

Steve Biko Memorial Lecture, Europe, 2012

17^th October2014

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Black Consciousness, Black Theology, Student Activism and the Shaping of the New South Africa: by Barney Pityana Any study of Steve Biko can never be complete without a reference to his approach to religion and the role of the church. What Steve Biko had to say about the church’s role in colonization was not new. Neither was his

at 10/10/2014

Friday Feature: Hugh Masekela Biography

10^th October2014

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Names: Masekela, Hugh Born: 4 April 1939, Witbank, Mmpumalanga (then Eastern Transvaal), South Africa In summary: Celebrated musician, singer, composer and trumpet player Hugh Ramopolo Masekela was born on 4 April 1939 in Witbank, near Johannesburg. Masekela showed musical ability from a young age, and began to play the piano as a child. Inspired by the movie Young Man

at 10/03/2014

Friday Feature: Black People's Convention (BPC)

03^th October2014

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The launch of the BPC at St Peter's Seminary, Hammanskraal, 8 February 1973. The Black People’s Convention (BPC) was an umbrella organisation of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). BCM had its origins in university campuses, mainly white, liberal universities. Many of the campaigns that were undertaken under its auspices were carried out by formations that embraced BPC’s Black