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1997. Afrikaner police admit to killing Stephen Biko. In South Africa, four apartheid-era police officers, appearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, admit to the 1977 killing of...
Steven Biko is arrested. 18 August 1977. Stephen Bantu Biko was the first president of South African Student Organisation (SASO), a black student’s organization that was focused on the resistance against and liberation from apartheid. In 1973 he was banned by apartheid government.
Biko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath. In the wake of the urban revolt of 1976 and with prospects of a national revolution becoming apparent, security police detained Biko, the outspoken student leader, on 18 August 1977. He was thirty years old and was reportedly extremely fit when arrested. He was detained in Port Elizabeth and on 11 ...
Following his arrest in August 1977, Biko was beaten to death by state security officers. Over 20,000 people attended his funeral. Biko's fame spread posthumously.
He was arrested four times over the next two years and was held without trial for months at a time. On August 18, 1977, he and a fellow activist were seized at a roadblock and jailed in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha).
Four apartheid-era police officers, including police Colonel Gideon Nieuwoudt who appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) admitted their role in the 1977 killing of Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM).
Steve Biko. On Aug. 18, 1977, Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act in South Africa. He was murdered the next month while still in custody.
Arrested, stripped naked, and placed in shackles, Biko was interrogated and badly beaten for nearly a month. Even after suffering a debilitating head injury, he was still kept in shackles on a filthy floor.
Steve Biko was arrested in Port Elizabeth in August 1977 by the South African police force. He was detained for three weeks without trial, and was kept naked and shackled in his cell.
The leader of the black consciousness movement in South Africa, Steve Biko, has died in police custody. The 30-year-old's death was confirmed by the commissioner of police, General Gert Prinsloo,...