Question Time: Remembering Steve Biko, 12 September 2016
1,688 views · Published 12 September 2016 · 25:09 · Indexed 26 October 2026
Channel: SABC News · 2016 · News & Politics
Today marks Thirty Nine years since the death of Black Consciousness Movement Founder Steve Bantu Biko. Steve Biko died under mysterious circumstances while in police custody at the then Pretoria Central Prison on 12 September 1977. Conflicting reports have characterised his death with the police at the time claiming that he had starved himself to death. The most popular version though is that he died from brain damage, a result of massive injuries to the head. A threat to the Apartheid regime, Biko was arrested at a roadblock under the Terrorism Act, interrogated and tortured for up to twenty two hours before meeting his untimely death. Today Question Time asks...Did Black Consciousness die with Steve Biko?
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