So, no, I did not know, or know of Steve Biko before reports of his death as a result of a savage beating by drunken security policemen made it into our newspapers. I knew nothing of his ideas ...

On the occasion of Steve Biko’s 74th birthday, let us reimagine his death with this question; why did the apartheid regime kill a central and leading figure of the Black Consciousness Movement?

Four decades after his death in police custody on September 12 ... celebrate these other elements of the struggle – of whom Steve Biko was surely among the strongest.

On September 12 Steve Biko died, in the words of Sydney Kentridge, “a miserable and lonely death on a mat on a stone floor in a prison cell”. The minister of justice and the police, Jimmy Kruger, ...

This edited extract, from the chapter Dead and Proud, focuses on Steve Biko’s attitude to martyrdom and to the political uses of death (30). Stopforth reworked the forensic photographs from Biko ...

On this day, September 12, 1977, 41 years ago, Steve Bantu Biko died ... Jimmy Kruger, then minister of justice and the police, reacted to the news of Biko's death: "It leaves me cold." Biko, born ...

Steve Biko Google Doodle His political activities ... although evidence pointed to serious injuries having been inflicted upon him. His death was hugely controversial with over 10,000 attending ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African leaders on Tuesday marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Steve Biko, the anti-apartheid activist and black consciousness leader who died in police custody ...

This edited extract, from the chapter Dead and Proud, focuses on Steve Biko's attitude to martyrdom and to the political uses of death (30). Stopforth reworked the forensic photographs from Biko's ...

As tributes poured in on the 45th anniversary of the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, the Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo) slammed government for failing to advance his ideas.

Four decades after his death in police custody on September 12 ... celebrate these other elements of the struggle – of whom Steve Biko was surely among the strongest.

South African leaders are marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Steve Biko, the anti-apartheid activist and black consciousness leader who died in police custody after being severely beaten.