Biko pointed the way to ‘beloved communities’
Unless we engage in serious projects aimed at rebuilding communities, the mooted national dialogues would, at best, be top-down talkshops
15 September 2024 - 00:00
Fifty-five years ago, a group of black students launched the South African Student Organisation (Saso). They delinked from white-dominated student organisations because they were impelled to face the existentialist questions posed to all historically colonised and oppressed individuals and groups — “what am I?” and “who am I?”..
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