Soweto school children protest against Afrikaans in 1976 The political student activity that has been very much a part of the South African landscape for the past year is in some ways reminiscent of protest action seen some forty-plus years ago when members of the National Union of South African Students broke away to form … Read more
Last Friday saw the 2016 annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture taking place at Unisa in Pretoria, in commemoration of the 39th anniversary of the murder of Bantu Stephen Biko. Biko, born in the Eastern Cape on the 18th December 1946, died on the 12th September 1977 at the age of 31, after weeks of torture at … Read more
Igama lika-Rick Turner lingaziwa inoma ubani oseke wachitha isikhathi eNyuvesi yaKwaZulu-Natal. Kukhona ibhilidi labafundi eliqanjwe ngegama lakhe, kube khona umfundaze obizwa ngegama lakhe kanti ingxenye yayo inyuvesi incike eduze komgwaqo oqanjwe ngalo igama lika-Rick Turner. Khona kunjalo, ngabe bangaki abazi kabanzi ngomlando kaDokotela Richard Albert Turner? Wazalelwa eNtshonalanga Kapa ngowe-1941 kubazali bokufika ababevela eNgilandi. Waphothula … Read more
Not many people would be aware of the name, Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, despite the fact that he’s regarded by many as the ‘father’ of the 1976 Soweto Uprising. In fact, Tiro is one of countless forgotten heroes of the anti-apartheid struggle – a revolution takes an army, and overcoming the apartheid regime took the will … Read more
Inhlangano Yabafundi: South African Students Organisation Umbhikisho wabafundi obunedumela kulonyaka odlule uthi awufane nombhikisho owenzeka eminyakeni engaphezu kwamashumi amane edlule lapho amalungu enhlangano yabafundi i-National Union of South African Students ahlubuka aqala inhlangano eyaziwa nge South African Students Organisation (SASO). Nakuba umshikashika we-Fees Must Fall ubonwa sengathi wawufuna ushintsho lwenzeke ngokushesha, kanjalo nemibono yamalunga e-SASO … Read more
This Sunday we commemorate the anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, which culminated on the 16th June 1976 when hundreds of youth were killed at the hands of the state. It’s widely accepted that the student protests were a response to the government’s intention to introduce Afrikaans as the compulsory medium of instruction in schools. But … Read more