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.
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.
