Revolutionaries/Politicians Biographies Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine

Sobukwe Speaking to a Basotholand African Congress Party, Conference in Lesotho in 1957

BlackHouse Kollective Soweto — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 17:07:26 +0000

Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sons and Daughters of the soil, I wish, in opening this conference, to quote the caption which appears on “Mohlabani” since it expresses so clearly the reason for our sustained struggle: “Tsoara thebe e tiee oa Rasenate, Oa bona fatse leno lea ea.” ( Hold fast thy shield, son of Rasenate, Thou [...]

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Dikobe Ben Martins

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:27:06 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za “As politics must teach people the ways and give them the means to take control over their own lives, art must teach people, in the most vivid and imaginative ways possible, to take control over their own experience and observations, how to link these with the struggle for liberation and a just society [...]

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Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile

Consciousness Admin — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 11:18:38 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Baleka Kgositsile was born on the 24 September 1949 in Claremont, Durban. She spent her pre-school years with her grandmother in the Northern Transvaal but completed her primary schooling in Durban. In 1958 her family moved to Fort Hare University where her father had been appointed librarian. Many political figures were either students [...]

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Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 13:41:41 +0000

Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a skilled builder and carpenter, and Salome Mororo-Mokgatle. His grandfather was Mokgatle Mokgatle (Sekete) the paramount Chief of the Bakwena tribe of Mmanape of Tshukudu in Phokeng, Rustenburg. Mokgatle’s grandmother, Matlhodi Paulina Kekana-Mokgatle, was the daughter of Chief Kekana the Potgietersrust [...]

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Lauretta Ngcobo

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:52:29 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Lauretta* (1) Ngcobo was born and brought up in a rural area of Kwazulu Natal called Ixopo. She is well known as a feminist writer during the early 50’s though her work was only published in the 80s and 90s. Ngcobo was one of the main speakers during the 1956 women’s anti-pass march [...]

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Alfred Temba Qabula

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:43:24 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Alfred Temba Qabula was born on 12 December 1942 in Flagstaff, Bhalasi in Pondoland to Solomon and Nonkhululeko Qabula. Qabula’s father worked as a machine-handler in the mines in Johannesburg. His father died in 1949 after someone allegedly poisoned his drink. His mother died a few years later. Qabula and his two brothers [...]

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Dr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:22:51 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Mamphela Ramphele was born on 28 December 1947 in Bochum District, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). Her mother, Rangoato Rahab, and her father, Pitsi Eliphaz Ramphele were primary school teachers. In 1944, her father was promoted as headmaster of Stephanus Hofmeyr School. Ramphele contracted severe whooping cough at the age of three months. The [...]

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Remembering Cde Herbert Chitepo 43 years after his assassination

Bruce Magwenzi — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:25:10 +0000

On March 18, 1975 Herbert Wiltshire Pfumaindini Chitepo, an African Nationalist and Chairman of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), a revolutionary movement that liberated Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) from white-imperialist forces, was killed by a car bomb whilst in exile in Lusaka, Zambia. Although his murderer remains unidentified, his life and legacy as a liberation [...]

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Bantu Steve Biko’s mini biography and he speaks on The Black Consciousness Movement

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:00:52 +0000

This is a rare interview which took place just before the assassination of Steve Bantu Biko, he speaks on The Black Consciousness Movement. Your browser does not support the video tag. Mini Biography of Bantu Steve Biko. Posted on YouTube by @Duron Chavis

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Pemulwuy

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:15:53 +0000

Pemulwuy was a courageous resistance fighter who led a guerrilla war against the British settlement at Sydney Cove from 1788 through to 1802. Because of his resistance to the invaders, he became one of the most remembered and written about historical figures in Australian Aboriginal history. Pemulwuy was a Bidjigal man from the Botany Bay [...]

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