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The following year on February 2, 1978, the Attorney-General of the Eastern Cape stated that he would not prosecute any police involved in the arrest and detention of Biko. So as a prelude whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior.
On October 7, 2003, the South African Justice Ministry officials announced that the five policemen who were accused of killing Biko would not be prosecuted because of insufficient evidence and the fact that the time span for prosecution had elapsed.
Retrieved September 19, 2007.
Quotes
- The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.[9]
- The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country.
Death and aftermath
On August 18, 1977, Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967.
Mangcu, Xolela, Biko: a life (London, 2014). Biko. Retrieved November 16, 2007.
- Heinrichs, Ann. Mahatma Gandhi.
Biko, Steve, en Aelred Stubbs, I write what I like (London, 1978). He was banned during the height of apartheid in March 1973, meaning that he was not allowed to speak to more than one person at a time, was restricted to certain areas, and could not make speeches in public.
Biko would become a martyr for the cause after his death. My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience.
Biographer Lindy Wilson also took a scriptural approach to Biko’s life. Retrieved September 19, 2007.
- Stiebel, Lindy. White Racism and Black Consciousness.[13]
- It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.[14]
- Even today, we are still accused of racism.
Stopforth reworked the forensic photographs from Biko’s autopsy to show not just the brutality to which Biko was subjected by his killers but, significantly, the manner in which they inadvertently made the killing look like a crucifixion.
In his book, No One To Blame?, about deaths in police custody in South Africa, human rights lawyer George Bizos titled the chapter on Biko “The passion of Steve Biko”.
Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. He is a legendary figure in the history of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. "Black Consciousness: The dialectics of liberation in South Africa." Centre for Civil Society 18 (2004): 1-28.
External links
All links retrieved February 9, 2023.
Background: Steve Biko: Martyr of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Read the original article.
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