Image: SABC-News Doctor Nchaupe Mokoape died of COVID-19 complications.
Messages of condolences are pouring in following the death of the co-president of the Black Consciousness Movement, Doctor Nchaupe Mokoape. The family of Doctor Mokoape has confirmed that he died of COVID-19 complications in a Durban hospital at the weekend.
Mokoape became South Africa’s youngest political prisoner at the age of 16 after taking part in the PAC’s anti-pass campaign in 1960.
In the late 1960’s, he met the likes of Steve Biko while studying medicine at the University of Natal in Durban. He was involved in the formation of the South African Students’ Organisation in 1969 and the Black People’s Convention in 1972.
Steve Banku Biko, Black Consciousness
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If he was he still alive today, Steve Bikoâs selflessness would have made him demand a more accountable political landscape in South Africa, analysts said in commemoration of the Black Conscious Movement (BCM) founderâs 74th birthday on Friday. Born on 18 December 1946, in the rural Eastern Cape town of Tarkastad, Biko was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the BCM in the late â60s and â70s. As a student at the University of Natal Medical School, he led the formation of the South African Studentsâ Organisation and the Black Peopleâs Convention â spearheading the Black.
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