“not sneering at the [white] liberals and their involvement”
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Steve Biko
Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ideas were articulated in a series of articles published under the pseudonym Frank Talk.
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culture · South African anti-apartheid activist (1946–1977) · civil rights advocate · trade unionist · politician · writer · also Steve Biko, Biko
Born 18 December 1946 · Died 12 September 1977 · Q214473
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2026· 2 entries
AFootballReport: STEVE-BIKOGAMBIAN-DUTCH-LIONS: Statistike i detalji | GAMBIA GFF-FIRST-DIVISION
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2025· 6 entries
The Mirror: EXCLUSIVE: Steve Biko inquest re-opens as two ex-cops demand legal aid to protest their innocence
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News24: Itumeleng Mothoagae | Why Steve Biko’s thoughts and ideas should still be embraced
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WWNO: South Africa reopens inquest into death of Steve Biko
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The Mirror: EXCLUSIVE: Steve Biko inquest dramatically re-opened 48 years on as family demand 'justice'
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Nature: Steve Biko Academic Hospital, UP
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The South African government reopened an investigation into Biko's death
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2024· 1 entry
Phys.org: Steve Biko's murder exposed deep racism in how medicine was taught and practiced in South Africa
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2019· 1 entry
Africa Check rated the claim “Steve Biko said “Apartheid doesn’t keep you alive unless it’s going to use you later.”” Fake.
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2017· 2 entries
Essence: Remembering Anti-Apartheid Activist Steve Biko On The 40th Anniversary Of His Senseless Death
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Yahoo: South Africa marks 40th anniversary of Steve Biko's death
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2015· 2 entries
Isaac Kamola wrote that Biko's critique of white liberalism was relevant to situations like the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals and Invisible Children, Inc
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Delegations from both the ANC and the Economic Freedom Fighters independently visited his grave
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2012· 2 entries
Yahoo: Google brings Steve Biko’s life, other historic events online
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The Google Cultural Institute published an online archive containing documents and photographs owned by the Steve Biko Foundation
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2009· 1 entry
Hip-Hop Wired: South African Revolutionary Steve Biko Remembered
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2008· 2 entries
Manning Marable and Peniel Joseph wrote that his death had "created a vivid symbol of black resistance" to apartheid that "continues to inspire new black activists" over a decade after the transition to majority rule
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The Pretoria Academic Hospital was renamed the Steve Biko Hospital
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2004· 1 entry
Was elected 13th in SABC 3's Great South Africans public poll
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2002· 1 entry
AZAPO issued a statement declaring that "Biko was not a neutral, apolitical and mythical icon" and that the ANC was "scandalously" using Biko's image to legitimise their "weak" government
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2001· 1 entry
Ahluwalia and Zegeye wrote that the men shared "a highly similar pedigree in their interests in the philosophical psychology of consciousness, their desire for a decolonising of the mind, the liberation of Africa and in
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2000· 1 entry
Each given by a prominent black intellectual
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1997· 2 entries
Mandela said that "Biko belongs to us all, not just AZAPO
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The cemetery where Biko was buried was renamed the Steve Biko Garden of Remembrance
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1996· 1 entry
The Constitutional Court ruled against the family, allowing the investigation to proceed
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1994· 2 entries
The ANC issued a campaign poster suggesting that Biko had been a member of their party, which was untrue
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A Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate past human-rights abuses
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1980· 1 entry
And was banned in South Africa soon after
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1979· 1 entry
A mountaineer climbed the spire of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco to unfurl a banner with the names of Biko and imprisoned Black Panther Party leader Geronimo Pratt on it
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1978· 1 entry
And another South African artist, Peter Stopforth, included a work entitled The Interrogators in his 1979 exhibition
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1977· 5 entries
Died 1977-09-12.
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“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.”
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Biko broke his banning order by travelling to Cape Town, hoping to meet Unity Movement leader Neville Alexander and deal with growing dissent in the Western Cape branch of the BCM, which was dominated by Marxists like Jo
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Career landmark: death in police custody.
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“Es mejor morir por una idea que vale la pena vivir, que vivir por una idea que no vale la pena morir» [Better to die for an idea that is worth living than to live for an idea that is not worth dying for].”
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1975· 1 entry
Co-founded the Zimele Trust, a fund for the families of political prisoners
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1974· 1 entry
Had a daughter, Lerato, who died after two months
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1973· 2 entries
Prevented him from working officially for the BCPs from which he had previously earned a small stipend, but he helped to set up a new BPC branch in Ginsberg, which held its first meeting in the church of a sympathetic wh
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Biko had enrolled for a law degree by correspondence from the University of South Africa
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1972· 3 entries
As a result of his poor academic performance, the University of Natal barred him from further study
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Was involved in founding the Black People's Convention (BPC) to promote Black Consciousness ideas among the wider population
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The BCP hired Biko and Bokwe Mafuna, allowing Biko to continue his political and community work
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1970· 1 entry
SASO withdrew its recognition of NUSAS, accusing it of attempting to hinder SASO's growth on various campuses
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1968· 1 entry
– was pleased with SASO's emergence, regarding it as a victory of apartheid thinking
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1966· 2 entries
Entered the University of Natal Medical School
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Began studying medicine at the University of Natal, where he joined the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
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1964· 1 entry
The Ginsberg community offered him a bursary to join his brother Khaya as a student at Lovedale, a prestigious boarding school in Alice, Eastern Cape
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1963· 1 entry
Transferred to the Forbes Grant Secondary School in the township
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1950· 1 entry
When Biko was four, his father fell ill, was hospitalised in St
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-12-18.
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