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Mcerwa's hero is Steve Biko, the black nationalist leader whose 1977 death in police custody turned him into the country's most celebrated black martyr. At 12 Mcerwa joined the 1976 Soweto uprising, the landmark outbreak of racial violence in which more than 100 blacks were killed. As he ran home after being teargassed, an older student who had been his political mentor was gunned down by the police...
Haunted by such bitter memories, Mcerwa rejects the conciliatory approach of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. "We want total liberation, not cosmetic changes," he explains. "It may take some bloodshed. We may go into a civil-war struggle. But quick-fix solutions won't work. As Steve Biko said, 'It is better to die for an idea that will live than to live for an idea that will...
FREE South Africa... Nelson Mandela... ANC ... Desmond Tutu... Soweto... Steve Biko...
Donald Woods, the white newspaper editor whose writings about his friendship with black activist Steve Biko became the subject of the film Cry Freedom, returned to South Africa last month from exile in Britain -- his first visit since fleeing the country after Biko's death in police custody in 1977. TIME asked Woods to write about his personal encounter with the changing country...
Speaking after Tutu, journalist Donald J. Woods--whose friendship with the late Black South African leader Stephen Biko is the subject of Cry Freedom--said the symbolic effect of Harvard's divestment would be even more important than its impact on the country's economy...