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Statue of former Irish-Apartheid Movement leader unveiled in South Africa

RTE 05 Dec 2024
They include Nelson Mandela, Oliver and Adelaide Tambo, Steve Biko and international figures such as Fidel Castro and Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme who supported the struggle against apartheid ... He added that ... He said ... .
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Sobukwe and the Red Berets

Mail Guardian South Africa 05 Dec 2024
... socialist character in the struggle for economic freedom in a neo-colonial South Africa We are uniting Chris Hani, Robert Sobukwe, Steve Biko and Che Guevara in the struggle for economic freedom.”.
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7 Dazzling Denzel Washington Performances to Watch After ‘Gladiator II’

The Wrap 30 Nov 2024
“I think of him as a jazz musician the melody is psychological truth ... Warner Bros.) ... Glory ... He had previously been nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as as South African activist Steve Biko, but this was the moment when he arrived ... .
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Denzel Washington at 70: his 20 greatest films – ranked!

The Guardian 28 Nov 2024
... the first of his 10 Oscar nominations for this portrayal of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko.
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‘When a work lands the excitement is physical': William Kentridge interviewed

The Spectator 28 Nov 2024
Watching William Kentridge’s film Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot is like being submerged inside his mind, inside the coffee pot maybe ... Laurie Wastell ... Sydney Kentridge represented Nelson Mandela and defended Steve Biko’s family after he died in custody.
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News24 | Fire breaks out at Steve Biko Academic Hospital, ICU patients evacuated

News24 23 Nov 2024
The intensive care unit of Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria was engulfed in smoke when a fire broke out in a plant room on the seventh floor, in the early hours of Saturday ... .
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‘Times have changed’: A brief history of student activism at Stanford and Cal 

Stanford Daily 20 Nov 2024
Student activism has a rich history at both Stanford and UC Berkeley ... Thousands of Berkeley students took to protest and hosted a sit-in in Sproul Plaza and renamed the plaza “Biko Plaza” in honor of the killed South African activist Steve Biko ... .
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British actor Timothy West passes away

The Times of India 14 Nov 2024
His early film career included a notable role as Commissioner Berthier in 'The Day of the Jackal' (1973), a film adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's thriller.His filmography also includes 'Cry Freedom' ...
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Timothy West, star of stage, film and television, dies aged 90

Gulf News 14 Nov 2024
London ... In an official statement, his family confirmed his death on Thursday, sharing the news on social media ... His filmography also includes 'Cry Freedom' (1987), where he portrayed a prominent role in the story of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko ... .
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Thandiswa Mazwai’s technologies of resistance

Mail Guardian South Africa 08 Nov 2024
The percussive stomps of the drum call the militants to action ... Mazwai’s thoughts are not dissimilar to the words of thinker Frantz Fanon, with which Mazwai is intimately familiar, or the words of South Africa’s Steve Biko and Robert Sobukwe ... ....
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Yahya Sinwar’s Last Stand

Independent online (SA) 28 Oct 2024
Like the revolutionary Zaynab, the people in the global south see nothing but beauty in the martyred bodies of their freedom fighters like Yahya Sinwar, Griffiths Mxenge, Steve Biko and Che Guevara.
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LETTER: ANC could fall further

Business Day 22 Oct 2024
But nothing could be further from the truth ... Besides, waiting times at NHS hospitals can be exceptionally long ... Only one state hospital in Gauteng, the Steve Biko Academic Hospital, provides high-quality patient care ... Cometh Dube-Makholwa. Midrand.
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Why Racism is Not an Incurable Disease but a Central Feature of Global Capitalism

Independent online (SA) 21 Oct 2024
Steve Biko, one of the most incisive radical thinkers on race and oppression, recognised the limitations of white liberalism long before theorists like Bell articulated their critiques ... Biko understood ...

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