‘In this Rainbow Nation, the colours are not coexisting harmonically; they continue to stand side by 
side, but separately from each other’.
To characterise him as an embodiment of the South African social transformation would not be a surprise. A tough, poor childhood surrounded by oppression and – being a son of a legendary black resistance figure – enriched by struggle for freedom gave its place to a present life mostly spent in an impressive Johannesburg business block. And seemingly, the passion for an ideology gave its palce to a mathematic stance over finance…
‘Black Conscience’ was Steve Biko’s dogma. He led a large portion of black south Africans into realizing their identity and resist from being assimilated to white culture. This ideology was called ‘Africanism’, and became very popular during the height of apartheid. At a time where the Black Power Movement reined black idealists in America, Biko’s dogma encouraged his compatriots in vigorously express their identity, in order to break their dependency from white supremacist cultural influence. Biko became soon an icon among black activists. Likewise, he soon became a target for the apartheid regime. He was eventually arrested and died in prison. Many suggest that, had he survived, today Biko would have been the main black South African political figure, overshadowing Nelson Mandela.
will soon be too few to start a war”. If my son can see this, it is time we whites realise the ugliness of what our current government calls democracy’.