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In 2008, the Pretoria Academic Hospital was renamed the Steve Biko Hospital. [271] The University of the Witwatersrand has a Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics. [272] In Salvador, Bahia, a Steve Biko Institute was established to promote educational attainment among poor Afro-Brazilians.
The building is named after anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. In October 2012, the university announced that it would be awarding £4 million to the Students' Union in order to make further building improvements. [5] This is likely to involve the construction of another floor on the Steve Biko building and should be completed by 2018.
The South African Students' Organisation (SASO) was a body of black South African university students who resisted apartheid through non-violent political action. The organisation was formed in 1969 under the leadership of Steve Biko and Barney Pityana and made vital contributions to the ideology and political leadership of the Black Consciousness Movement.
Despite its liberal resistance to racially separate organisations in the 1960s, its members, and in particular its leadership, supported the breakaway in 1969, of black student leaders, led by Steve Biko and others, to form the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), a Black Consciousness Movement student grouping.
The organisation's women's wing is Imbeleko Women's Organisation, simply known as IMBELEKO. Its inspiration is drawn from the Black Consciousness Movement inspired philosophy of Black Consciousness developed by Steve Biko, Harry Nengwekhulu, Abram Onkgopotse Tiro, Vuyelwa Mashalaba and others, as well as Marxist Scientific Socialism.
Steve Biko (1946–1977) was a South African anti-apartheid political activist. Steve Biko may also refer to: Steve Biko Academic Hospital, located in Pretoria, South Africa; Steve Biko Artillery Regiment, regiment of the South African Army; Steve Biko Building, administrative home of the University of Manchester Students' Union, Manchester, UK
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The Steve Biko Memorial Lectures 2000-2008, The Steve Biko Foundation and Pan Macmillan South Africa, 2009. Dr Saleem Badat, Black Man You're on Your Own, Science Technology Education Publishers, 2009. Steve Biko & Millard W. Arnold, No Fears Expressed, Mutloatse Arts Heritage Trust, 2007. Steve Biko Biography