Onkgopotse Tiro (9 November 1945 – 1 February 1974) was a South African student activist and black consciousness militant.
At university he had become an active member of the South African Student Organisation, out of which the Black Consciousness Movement grew.
After his expulsion from the then University of the North in 1972, following his scathing critique of the Bantu Education Act of 1953, he went on to teach history at Morris Isaacson High School near and around Central Western Jabavu (CWJ) in Soweto in 1973.
[3] Tiro grew up in the relative poverty of a “hand to mouth existence”[3] and was brought up as a Seventh Day Adventist.
[5] Tiro was immediately expelled by the white authorities concerned by its impact on black people in the audience.