Today 39 years ago,Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko was killed in police custody.A then unknown journalist ,Helen Zille,broke the story of police complicity in the death of Biko.Zille was at the time a journalist with the Rand Daily Mail under editor Allister Sparks.
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the minds of the oppressed.
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life,the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.