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Steve Biko (born December 18, 1946, King William’s Town, South Africa—died September 12, 1977, Pretoria) was the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. His death from injuries suffered while in police custody made him an international martyr for South African Black nationalism .
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
There, Biko died alone in a cell on 12 September 1977. [141] According to an autopsy, an "extensive brain injury" had caused "centralisation of the blood circulation to such an extent that there had been intravasal blood coagulation, acute kidney failure, and uremia ". [142]
17 de sept. de 2020 · Steve Biko, one of the most prominent leaders in the anti-apartheid struggle, died in police detention on September 12, 1977. He was imprisoned on charges of terrorism. The South African Minister of Police announced that he died after a seven-day hunger strike.
9 de feb. de 2010 · On September 12, 1977, he died naked and shackled on the filthy floor of a police hospital. News of the political killing, denied by the country’s white minority government, led to international...
- Missy Sullivan
Three South African newspapers carried reports that Biko did not die as a result of a hunger strike. Kruger took one of these papers, the Rand Daily Mail to the South African Press Council to lodge a complaint after it had published a front-page story claiming that Steve Biko had suffered extensive brain damage.
20 de sept. de 2012 · His death by torture, at the hands of the police, robbed South Africa of one of its most gifted leaders. Below in an excerpt from Biko – A Biography, Mangcu describes Biko's arrest and how he was killed. The Arrest. At the roadblock the police asked Steve and Jones to step out and open the boot.
12 de sept. de 2012 · The life and legacy of Steve Biko, leader of the South African Black Consciousness movement, is remembered on the 35th anniversary of his death while in police custody.
