Stephen Biko A Trailblazer for Human Rights in South Africa

FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://www.africanelements.org/news/remembering-steve-bikos-inspiring-sacrifice-for-freedom-today/ In this video, ... Steve Biko was elected president an was promptly expelled from medical school. By 1973, Steve Biko was banned by the South African apartheid government. Biko died following savage beatings by the security police. The cause of death – and the circumstances – were repressed by the South African ... 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 ... Stephen Biko was born on this date in 1946. He was a Black South African anti-apartheid activist, African nationalist, and African socialist. 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 ... Mr Steve Biko, the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, has died in detention after a hunger strike. He began the strike ... Black Consciousness re-energised black opposition to apartheid and helped draw the world's attention to the brutality of South Africa's white minority rule. Stephen Bantu Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. He founded the Black Consciousness Movement. On 12 September 1977, Stephen Bantu Biko, aged 30, died of brain damage from severe beating sustain while in police custody.