Those who predicted in 1960 that Sharpeville and Langa heralded the entry of South Africa into a permanent state of emergency were wrong, but only just. Since then, the country has lived in a continuous state of anticipated emergency.
This article which was published in WSCF Journal, Volume 1 No 2, 1979, pages 26-31, traces the birth and development of the Black Consciousness Movement to the banning of all Black Consciousness Movement organisations in 1977.
