Black People's Convention
An Organisation founded in 1972 to operate on the political front in order to co-ordinate the Black Consciousness Movement 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.
Sources
Brits, 1995: p.31
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