Nontsikelelo veliko biography of williams family

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Steve Biko was not alone in forging the Black Consciousness Movement , he was nevertheless its most prominent leader, who with others guided the movement of student discontent into a political force unprecedented in the history of South Africa. Biko and his peers were responding to developments that emerged in the high phase of apartheid, when the Nationalist Party, in power for almost two decades, was restructuring the country to bring it into conformity with its policies of separate development.

The students that launched the South Africa Students Organisation SASO belonged to a generation that resisted the process of strengthening apartheid, in any manner they could. But the focus will be primarily on Biko. Mzingaye died suddenly in , and MamCethe raised the children on her own, working as a cook at the Grey Hospital. Steve was four when his father died.

Khaya was well-read and well-spoken, probably a result of his love of newspapers. He became a reporter for the school newspaper at Forbes Grant School, and got involved with the local branch of the Pan Africanist Congress PAC , a political tendency which had a strong presence in the area. After coming under the influence of Malcolm Dyani, who was also at Forbes Grant, Khaya was made the secretary of the local branch, and he tried to use the Star of Hope rugby club to recruit people into the PAC.

Steve, who was living in Cathcart before the family moved to the house in Zaula Street, was brought home when the family moved in. His teacher, Damsie Monaheng, who remembered him as a naughty boy who was always barefoot, recommended that he be promoted to Standard Five, so he skipped Standard Four.