Black People's Convention

(Acronym BPC) An political organisation founded in 1972 to co-ordinate the Black Consciousness Movement's political activities in South Africa. Besides its political activities, the BPC also organised community projects such as cultural and health porgrammes and a literacy campaign. (See SABTU and the TECON Theatre Festival.) It was responsible for the establishment of the Black Allied Workers Union. The BPC was banned in October 1977.

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