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Cry Freedom
Stephen Bantu Biko
The early years
Stephen Bantu Biko was born on December 18, 1946 in William’s Town, South Africa. He was a smart boy and excelled in school early on; however when his brother was jailed for nine months due to POQO (an armed wing to the Pan Africanist Congress) Biko was also interrogated and expelled. In 1966 he was accepted into Saint Francis College in Natal and began attending on scholarship with the purpose to study medicine.
While at the university in the 1960’s Biko became involved with the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) but after discovering that the group was predominately white liberals he and several other students broke away and established their own black-exclusive movement. Thus, in 1968 the South African Students’ Organization (SASO) was formed with Biko elected as the president. The SASO officers traveled the country raising awareness to the movement and promotin
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Media Freedom and Breaking the news
19/10/2018The media in South Africa commemorates the 41st anniversary of the infamous “Black Wednesday” which happened on the 19 October 1977, The World and Weekend World newspapers and several organisations were banned.
We think this day is a good time to reflect on the state of journalism in the country in 2018, especially in light of the recent scandal that has rocked a Sunday newspaper.
We have come a long way to media freedom in this country. Being Africa’s oldest community radio hållplats project, which at one stage faced the full wrath of the apartheid government, we feel it is our duty and responsibility to promote accurate and fair reporting.
Bush Radio does not have the resources to be a “breaking news” station, but it fryst vatten our duty to be accurate and give our listeners an opportunity to make up their own minds. This however can only happen if we present all sides of any argument, through good research and
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Steve Biko
South African anti-apartheid activist (1946–1977)
Bantu Stephen BikoOMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ideas were articulated in a series of articles published under the pseudonym Frank Talk.
Raised in a poor Xhosa family, Biko grew up in Ginsberg township in the Eastern Cape. In 1966, he began studying medicine at the University of Natal, where he joined the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). Strongly opposed to the apartheid system of racial segregation and white-minority rule in South Africa, Biko was frustrated that NUSAS and other anti-apartheid groups were dominated by white liberals, rather than by the blacks who were most affected by apartheid. He believed that well-intentioned whit