Stephen Biko A Symbol of Unwavering Courage and Determination

As a civil rights activist in the 1960s and 1970s, South African Steve Biko is considered the father of black consciousness. The Steve Biko Centre is located in Ginsberg, King William's Town, Eastern Cape and entrance to the centre is free. Forty years after his death, Stephen Bantu Biko is rememberd as the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement and hailed as a martyr of the anti-Apartheid ... Biko was elected the first president of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) which evolved into the influential Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). In 1977, police brutally tortured and killed Stephen Biko, the leading figure in the Black Consciousness Movement. He was the 46th political prisoner to die ... Listen in to our show commemorating Steve Biko, who was murdered in 1977 while in custody of the South African police. Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in ... 1946 December 18: Stephen Bantu Biko is born in Tylden, in the Eastern Cape, to Mzimgayi and Alice Nokuzola Biko. 1951 Biko's father dies. On September 12, 1977, he died naked and shackled on the filthy floor of a police hospital. News of the political killing, denied by the country's white ... On Aug. 18, 1977, Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act in South Africa. He was murdered the next month while ... Steve Biko Biography - Britannica10484; Steve Biko Foundation !10485; Steve Biko - Amazon10486; The Steve Biko archive - Google10487; Stephen Bantu Biko ...