Xolela mangcu biko biography

I had several reasons for wanting to read about the South African anti-apartheid martyr, Steve Biko (1946-1977).

Xolela Mangcu, who knew Biko, provides the first in-depth look at the life of one of the most iconic figures of the anti-apartheid movement, whose legacy is.

Xolela Mangcu, who knew Biko, provides the first in-depth look at the life of one of the most iconic figures of the anti-apartheid movement, whose legacy is.

"Forty years after Steve Biko's tragic death, this, his first comprehensive biography, is republished in an updated anniversary edition.

Mangcu's biography traces the development of Biko's intellectual ideas back to the years when Europeans first began landing in what is now South Africa and.

"Forty years after Steve Biko's tragic death, this, his first comprehensive biography, is republished in an updated anniversary edition.

Xolela Mangcu is Founding Director of the Steve Biko Foundation and Assistant Editor and columnist for The Sunday Independent.

First of all, I knew little about him and the reasons for his murder by the South African security forces. Secondly, he was born and lived in the township called Ginsberg, which is part of town of King Williams Town in the Eastern Cape, where many of my mother’s family lived.

One member of her family, her grandfather, was the late Senator Franz Ginsberg (1862-1936), in whose honour Biko’s township was named when it was founded in the early part of the 20th century. Thirdly, Biko was a friend of my cousin Geoff Budlender, who, as a student-leader in Cape Town became an important white anti-apartheid activist.

Finally, this particular biography was written by Xolela Mangcu who arranged for me to visit Ginsberg Township in 2003, where I had the honour of meeting Biko’s elder brother Khaya briefly after having visited the house where Ste