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86Steve Biko - a remarkable person and martyr in South Africa
Steven Bantu Biko was a charismatic person who eloquently articulated the aspirations of blacks in apartheid South Africa, especially of the young people. He was murdered by police on 12 September 1977 after incredibly inhumane treatment.
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85Apartheid's Mental Diseases: An Educative Social Psychotherapy - Reintegration of African's Health and History
Apartheid diseased the minds, psyche, spirit and body of the African in a myriad of ways. African South Africans are in dire need of a national Social Pyscho-threrapy, and while it interrogates the history of this infection, this article records and helps keep record of what was done to Africans to get to this stage and state.
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76Peter Gabriel: 10 Best Songs For Your iPod
Peter Gabriel has one of the best male singing voices in history. And it's real -- he can actually sing as well as it sounds like he can on his records. (Check out the Biko vid below.) Believe me when I tell you that is truly something worth...
72The Protest Movement: The 10 Best Political Protest Songs of the 80's
In the 1980's socially conscious rap music emerged as a form of urban folk music. From the underground, the US hardcore punk scene provided a voice for disenfranchised youth, much in the same way that UK punk did in the 70's, while on the global front, there was a huge anti-apartheid protest movement that was developing. Here is a list of the 10 best protest songs of the 80's protest movement.
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70Xenophobia, poverty and capitalism in South Africa
The rise of xenophobia threatens the very core of the peaceful revolution that brought South Africa democracy in 1994.
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61The Mystery
It was not a usual dark Sunday night, the clouds of sky painted with a tinted shade of saffron, I boarded the bus to Bangalore. As it started moving out of the rushy Trichy Bus station, there was ...
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