Following an extensive and successful democratic process, the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality officially unveiled new street names in four major routes in Gqeberha. This comes after all required steps were followed according to the South African Geographic Names Council Act (118 of 1998) and the NMBM naming and renaming policy. The unveiling which took place on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, started off at Strand Street, Gqeberha Central Business District, where the late renowned freedom … [Read more...] about Look for these 5 New Street and Place Names in Gqeberha
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Welcome to Steve Biko Street
AZAPO has welcomed the renaming of Strand Street in Gqeberha after Steve Biko, the Founding Father of the Black Consciousness Movement. Strand Street is the street where the torture headquarters of the apartheid Special Branch were located. The notorious place was the Sanlam Building where Biko was tortured to a point of being brain dead on the evening of 6 September 1977. In AZAPO we therefore believe that the Sanlam Building and Strand Street represents the continuum of martyrdom, for it … [Read more...] about Welcome to Steve Biko Street
Steve Biko – Immortalised as Today’s Google Doodle
Stephen Bantu Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) - an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s would have been 70 years of age today. See a Rare TV Interview with Steve Biko HERE. As a student leader, Biko founded the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population. Since his death in police custody, he has been called a martyr of the anti-apartheid movement. While living, his writings and activism … [Read more...] about Steve Biko – Immortalised as Today’s Google Doodle
Remembering Steve Biko in a rare TV interview
Today marks 39 years since the arrest and incarceration of Steve Biko in the Sanlam Building, Port Elizabeth. On 12 September 1977 Biko died in Police custody in Pretoria. On 18 August 1977, Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 and interrogated by officers of the Port Elizabeth security police including Harold Snyman and Gideon Nieuwoudt. This interrogation took place in the Police Room 619 of the Sanlam Building in Port Elizabeth. The … [Read more...] about Remembering Steve Biko in a rare TV interview
We will remember Biko
Stephen Bantu Biko - born on 18 December 1946 was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and would have been 69 years of age today had he not died of wounds inflicted by police in Room 619 of the Sanlam Building in Port Elizabeth's then Main Street (now renamed Govan Mbeki Avenue). The Biko song by Peter Gabriel became an anthem for us as student activists: A student leader, Biko later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize … [Read more...] about We will remember Biko
