Stephen Biko A Catalyst for Social Justice in South Africa

In 1969, Steve Biko and other black students frustrated with white leadership in multi-racial student organizations formed an exclusively black ... Biko died following savage beatings by the security police. The cause of death – and the circumstances – were repressed by the South African ... He knew the needs of the black community, and he believed in self-help. In 1975 he founded the Zimele Trust Fund to help political prisoners and their families, ... As a civil rights activist in the 1960s and 1970s, South African Steve Biko is considered the father of black consciousness. Thirty years ago, on 12 September 1977, Bantu Stephen Biko, one of South Africa s greatest leaders and philosophers, was murdered in detention by the apartheid ... Stephen Bantu Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. He founded the Black Consciousness Movement. Biko became the voice of the Black Conscious Movement, a political ideology centered on black identity and uncompromising pride in that identity. Steve Biko was elected president an was promptly expelled from medical school. By 1973, Steve Biko was banned by the South African apartheid government. 30 years after his death, Bantu Stephen Biko is memorialized as one of the most important activists of South Africa's apartheid era. Review: Biko, Steve. Black Consciousness in South Africa. 1979. Ed. Arnold Millard. Leketi Makalela. Abstract. Stephen Bantu Biko, the father of the Black ...