This year marks an important moment in the history of South Africa, namely the 50th anniversary of the founding of the SA Students' Organisation (Saso), whose key driver was Bantu Stephen Biko. The ...

Undated file photo of South African black consciousness leader Steve Biko. Biko died of brain damage in a Pretoria prison cell in September 1977, JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The family of renowned South ...

Peter Gabriel released "Biko" in 1980 in tribute to Steve Biko, a prominent anti-apartheid activist who was tragically killed by the South African government in 1977. But Michelle Appel, the assistant ...

While Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, and Desmond Tutu are rightly venerated for their role in opposing and ending white minority rule in South Africa, another leader of the liberation years has been ...

FILE PHOTO: Souvenirs with faces of the late anti-apartheid activists and politicians of South Africa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A South African court has reopened an inquest into the death of ...

The commemoration of Steve Biko demands more than a mere historicist recount; it necessitates an epistemic and ontological excavation into the very foundation of black subjectivity under colonialism ...

The death of global civil rights icon Nelson Mandela this week has sparked hours of coverage, including some welcome (and unwelcome) revisitation of Apartheid’s history and impact. While the lion’s ...

MANILA, Philippines — Pasig City Mayor-elect Vico Sotto has spoken up on the assertion of his father, Vic Sotto, that the sale of “biko” or rice cakes was prohibited in the city during the campaign ...

While Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, and Desmond Tutu are rightly venerated for their role in opposing and ending white minority rule in South Africa, another leader of the liberation years has been ...