black consciousness

• what was black consciousness?

  international movement from the US

  concerned with preservation of black identity , history and culture
• what made black south africans join the black consciousness movement?

  the education system taught nothing about their history and only about their inferiority
• what was the government response to black consciousness?

  they were tolerant to it as they felt it its goals tied in with the apartheid regime
• what were the goals of black consciousness?

  non- cooperation with whites even those who wre sympathetic

  encouraging indians and coloured to view themselves as black and equally targeted by whites
• what group was formed on the basis of black consciousness?

  south afrian students organisation (SASO) in 1968
• what was the south african students movement?

  student organisation seperate from black consciousness and SASO
• what anti apartheid movements did SASO and SASM organise?


  SASO -> 1972, strikes on university campuses for inferior facilities

  SASM -> organised disruptions of the ducth reformed church meetings in schools
• what was the government response to these movements?

  the government saw both organisations working under black consciousness and arrested steve biko in 1973

  banned SASO in 1975

  kept SASM legal