Who Was Steve Biko and Why Is He So Important to South Africa?
This led to the creation of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) which eventually became the Black Consciousness Movement.
“Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time,” he said.
Once again his activism led to his expulsion, this time from Natal University He was also a victim of the draconian apartheid laws in place at the time.
In February 1973 Biko was banned, which meant he could not address a public gathering or even speak to more than one person at a time…
… Biko was arrested on August 27 1976 and held in solitary confinement for 101 days before being released.
A little more than a year after the first, Biko was arrested again at a police road block.
Stripped and manacled for 20 days he was taken to the headquarters of Security Police in Port Elizabeth. Badly beaten he was shackled to a grill before being taken on a 600 mile journey to Pretoria, where he died shortly arriving at the prison on September 12 1977.
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