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16 unusual facts about Steve Biko


Assan Jatta

In season 2005-2006 he was played in Gambia for club Steve Biko, he then join Lierse S.K.

Ben Martins

He was charged and acquitted in 1978 for producing banned Steve Biko T-shirts.

Biko

Steve Biko (1946–1977), anti-apartheid activist in South Africa

Bruce Haigh

Included amongst the friends he made at this time were Steve Biko (murdered by police whilst being held in detention in 1977) and Dr. Mamphela Ramphele (Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town and a Director of the World Bank).

David Napley

In the same year he went to South Africa as an independent observer at the inquest into the death of Steve Biko.

David Swann

He was deeply affected by the human rights abuses of apartheid, particularly the killing of Steve Biko, who lived near the mission where he worked.

Eugene Skeef

Eugene’s roots are firmly established in his cultural work with Steve Biko, the late South African civil rights leader.

History of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania

Despite its organisational weaknesses, the PAC's Africanism did much to inform the student uprisings of the late 1970s and inspired the formation of the Black Consciousness Movement under the leadership of Steve Biko.

Malusi Mpumlwana

Along with Steve Biko, he and his wife Thoko Mpumlwana were founding activists in the antiapartheid Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa.

Peter Ralph Randall

In an interview with Padraig O'Malley on 27 September 1997 he stated that exposure to people like Beyers Naudé, the thinking of Steve Biko, and works like A Taste of Power (by Randall) lead him and others to acknowledge the righteousness of aspirations which were not satisfied but were being actively suppressed.

After discussions — particularly with Bennie Khoapa and Steve Biko, it was decided to split the project into a Black Community Programme and a White Consciousness Programme.

Simphiwe Dana

Two years later, she was named the "Best Female Artist", with the song "The One Love Movement on Bantu Biko Street", at the 13th South African Music Awards.

Steve Biko FC

The Steve Biko Football Club was named after the murdered South African civil rights activist Steve Biko.

Trefor Jenkins

Trefor Jenkins, former dean of the medical school at the University of Witwatersrand, and a human rights activist, was one of six doctors, who questioned the ethics of the medical establishment and the previous South African government after the death, in custody, of Steve Biko, the Black Consciousness leader, in September 1977.

William B. Edmondson

His appointment came at a time of major political and social upheaval in that country, following the Soweto uprising and the murder of student activist Steve Biko.

Zwelitsha

BCM activists and leaders including Steve Biko, Harry Ranwedzi Nengekhulu, Welile Nhlapho paid visit in early that including the launching of the National Youth Organization (NAYO) a Black Consciousness youth wing at nearby Mount Coke Hotel.


Staffrider

Produced by The Durban Moment that saw Steve Biko begin the South African Students' Organisation, Staffrider had a view of literature with a small "I": it's base was popular rather than elite and it sought to provide an autobiography of experience in its witness of daily black life in South Africa.