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BIKO one of the first anti-apartheid activists

BIKO one of the first anti-apartheid activists. Steve bantu Biko was born in 1946 in South Africa.

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BIKO one of the first anti-apartheid activists

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  1. BIKOone of the first anti-apartheid activists

  2. Steve bantu Biko was born in 1946 in South Africa. • He decided to enter a political movement while he was still in secondary school. Afterwards he went to University to study medecine and became a member of the national union of South African students which was directed by white students who were not concerned with the problems of black people. • So, he resigned in 1969 and created the South African Students’ Organization, only composed of Black students. • This movement created a new philosophy among South African people.

  3. In 1972, Biko was one of the founders of the Black Peoples’ Convention which put together 70 movements and black associations which will play an important part during the riots of 1976 in Soweto. Biko was the first president of the BPC and was immediately excluded of the university where he had been studying medecine. He began to work full-time in social projects in Durban. • The South African government had tolerated the BCM and some other black movements, but they began to take measures against these organizations at the beginning of the seventies. In 1973, Biko was forbidden to do a lot of things.

  4. On August 18th 1977, Steve Biko and one of his friends, Peter Jones were accused of terrorism and were arrested by the police. • In august 1977, he was imprisoned again and violently beaten by the police during his police custody. • During several days, Biko, as a prisoner, was chained up, beaten, and left without care in HQ of the police in Port Elizabeth .

  5. On september 11th, still unconscious, Biko was rushed naked to the central prison of Pretoria. A few hours after his arrival, he died of cerebral lesions on the floor of his cell. • The emotion and the anger in South Africa and abroad, were great . Donald woods the editor of the Daily Dispatch who had become a friend of Steve Biko gave to foreign news papers pictures of his body seriously wounded and coverded with bruises. • The 25th anniversary of his death was greeted by a flow of respects all over South Africa.

  6. So, he became the biggest martyr of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Thanks to this role as a leader of black liberation, he initiated the black conciousness of its identity which was the starting point of the black emancipation.

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