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The Steve Biko Memorial Lecture, an annual event held by the Steve Biko Foundation, is a series of lectures by some of the African community’s foremost scholars, artists, religious figures and political leaders. The lectures explore the enduring legacy and leadership of Stephen Bantu Biko in a contemporary context.

The Steve Biko Memorial Lectures: 2000–2008 is a compilation of the memorable lectures delivered at the event since its inception in 2000.

Described as a resuscitative moment, the series probes the inextricable link between the individual and society; the challenges and opportunities that face developing nations; and attempts to define a mandate for this generation of leadership.

This book is published in commemoration of the life and legacy of Stephen Bantu Biko in the hope that it will contribute to realising the purpose for which Steve Biko lived and died: restoring people to their true humanity.

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Black Studies

Political Ideologies

Human Rights

Civil Rights

Social Science

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Sociologie, société et politique

Republic of South Africa

South Africa

General officer

Ideology

Civil and political rights

General

Chris Hani

Afrique du Sud

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Publié par	Pan Macmillan South Africa
Date de parution	12 juillet 2011
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9781770101845
Langue	English

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The Steve Biko Memorial Lectures
The Steve Biko Memorial Lectures 2000-2008
The Steve Biko Foundation and Macmillan
First co-published 2009 by
The Steve Biko Foundation
PO Box 32005
Braamfontein
Johannesburg, 2017

www.sbf.org.za admin@sbf.org.za

and

Pan Macmillan South Africa
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Northlands
Johannesburg, 2116

www.panmacmillan.co.za

ISBN: 978-1-77010-1630 eISBN: 978-1-77010-1845

Editorial matter and selection Steve Biko Foundation Trust 2009 Layout and design Pan Macmillan and Steve Biko Foundation Trust 2009 Text Individual authors 2009

This EPUB edition first co-published 2010 by Pan Macmillan South Africa and The Steve Biko Foundation

The Authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of the lectures.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publishers. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

Proofread by Di Smith

Cover design by Printerboyz, East London, South Africa
Contents

Introduction
1
Iph Indlela ? Finding our Way into the Future Speaker: Prof. Njabulo S Ndebele | Date: 12 September 2000
2
Biko s Children Speaker: Prof. Zakes Mda | Date: 12 September 2001
3
Fighting Apartheid with Words Speaker: Prof. Chinua Achebe | Date: 12 September 2002
4
Recovering our Memory: South Africa in the Black Imagination Speaker: Ngugi wa Thiong o | Date: 12 September 2003
5
Ten Years of Democracy: 1994-2004 Speaker: Former President Nelson Mandela | Date: 10 September 2004
6
Citizenship as Stewardship Speaker: Dr Mamphela Ramphele | Date: 12 September 2005
7
South Africa: A Scintillating Success Waiting to Happen Speaker: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu | Date: 26 September 2006
8
30th Commemoration of Steve Biko s Death Speaker: Former President Thabo Mbeki | Date: 12 September 2007
9
Energising Democracy: Rights and Responsibilities Speaker: Former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel | Date: 11 September 2008

Special Acknowledgements
Introduction
The beginning of the end of apartheid, which commenced with the first democratic elections on 27 April 1994, presented the challenge of disbanding the deeply embedded complexes of race. These complexes of black inferiority and white supremacy, reinforced by an oppressive state machinery, are responsible for framing various aspects of South African life, including public discourse. Historically, black opinion was suppressed and white opinion was granted access to more permissive channels of expression.
Since 1994, an admirable trait of the new South Africa has been an expansion of the culture of public discourse. Never before have so many spoken so audibly, on as many public platforms, about the things that are happening in our society. The AIDS pandemic, the arms deal, the formation of new political parties and the political and economic turmoil in Zimbabwe are a few examples from a growing list of issues that are definitive features of the national dialogue.
The development of this interrogative culture has pushed to the rear of public memory the historic reality that only fifteen years ago such probing voices were silenced. Indeed, like Bantu Stephen Biko, many citizens were persecuted not merely for the views they aired but for those they held, or were said to hold. There existed not only a culture of restraint of the freedom of expression, but also of assaulting the freedom of thought.
It is against this background that the Steve Biko Foundation has positioned itself as a catalyst for national reflection and critical inquiry. The Foundation launched the Steve Biko Memorial Lecture in the year 2000, as the flagship of a broader programme, informed by the values that Biko lived and died for: restoring people to their true humanity.
It has been nine years since that cold, wet September evening, on which Professor Njabulo Ndebele delivered the first Steve Biko Memorial Lecture at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Titled, Iph Indlela: Finding a Way into the Future , Ndebele s lecture, falling on the sixth anniversary of South Africa s democracy, was a timely introspection on the state of the transformation process. Crafted and delivered with the precision of a true wordsmith, it set a remarkable tone that has come to be associated with the series.
Continuing with the writer s theme the following lecture was delivered by Professor Zakes Mda in 2001. Titled Biko s Children , it was an examination of the new cultural landscape and how the current generation of artists have become occupants and architects of new creative spaces.
In 2002 author Professor Chinua Achebe delivered the third annual lecture, Fighting Apartheid with Words . During this, Achebe s first visit to South Africa, he paid tribute to the prophetic gift of the writer, and her or his role in African liberation.
Professor Ngugi wa Thiong o s lecture Recovering our Memory: South Africa in the Black Imagination followed in 2003. Ngugi wa Thiong o articulated the importance of language in defining ourselves as African people and actualising the much sought-after African Renaissance.
Former President Nelson Mandela reflected in the 2004 lecture, Ten Years of Democracy: 1994-2004 , on the relevance of Biko s legacy to the emerging African Renaissance and the need for a fundamental change in our consciousness (a change for which Biko had created the blueprint decades before).
The sixth Steve Biko Memorial Lecture was given by Dr Mamphela Ramphele. Titled Citizenship as Stewardship , the lecture focused on the link between the enjoyment of rights enshrined in South Africa s Constitution, the challenge of internalising the values from which they flow and creating a culture in which each individual takes personal responsibility for defending and living those ideals.
On 26 September 2006, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu delivered the seventh Steve Biko Memorial Lecture. The lecture served as a national reminder of the importance of guarding against the degeneration of the social values that have underpinned our struggle for freedom and democracy. According to Tutu, but for the persistence of this challenge of moral decay, South Africa is a scintillating success waiting to happen .
On 12 September 2007, the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Biko s murder in detention, former President Thabo Mbeki summoned us once more to Jameson Hall to deliver the eighth lecture and, to celebrate the life of Stephen Bantu Biko and to invoke a vision that has, over the years, inspired all freedom-loving South Africans decisively to defeat the monster of apartheid and racism and realise the dream of liberation .
Mbeki s lecture was a momentous political landmark in that it was a celebration of our political victory through an infrequent yet firm embrace across the lines of political parties.
In 2008, in the midst of a deepening economic crisis in South Africa and the international community, former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel delivered the ninth lecture: Energising Democracy: Rights and Responsibilities . In his address, Manuel challenged the nation, reminding us that the end of apartheid did not mark the achievement of a democratic dispensation but the beginning of creating one.
Described by Professor Ndebele as a resuscitative moment the Steve Biko Memorial Lecture has become an indelible feature on the African calendar - it is broadcast live in South Africa and forty-seven African countries on television through a partnership between the Steve Biko Foundation and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).
The Foundation is grateful to the inspirational leaders who have honoured our invitations over the years. We also extend our gratitude to the donor institutions that have supported the work of the Foundation, making it possible for us to deliver on our mandate with dependable excellence.
The Foundation is also appreciative of the University of Cape Town, which has been our partner in the lecture series since its inception. The dedication and support of the university has ensured that the lecture has sustained its growth on a year-on-year basis. This is reflected in the patronage the lecture has enjoyed, which extends well beyond the university community into the nation and the African continent.
Lastly, it is to the trustees and staff of the Steve Biko Foundation that one must return, to extend immense gratitude for a job well done. The many hours of sacrifice by the trustees and staff, both current and past, have helped to build the lecture into a showcase for public dialogue. This dedication is premised on the shared belief that this continent needs to build a critical mass of citizens who are at ease with probing the socio-economic and political issues and challenging dominant paradigms.
This publication is the Foundation s modest contribution towards the development of a culture of critical analysis and diversity of thought. It is for all those who relish intellectual inquiry and find compelling the continuum between ideas, citizenship and social action. It is dedicated to the memory of the silenced voices.
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Nkosinathi Biko
Chief Executive Officer
Steve Biko Foundation
1 Iph Indlela? Finding our Way into the Future
Speaker: Prof. Njabulo S Ndebele
Date: 12 September 2000

Like all social processes, the African reawakening is a messy yet creative development, far from being subject to a body of predictive rules and regulations, nor is it reducible to a political programme.
- Njabulo Ndebele
Iph Indlela? Finding our Way into the Future
I feel so singularly honoured by the Steve Biko Foundation, which invited