Steve Biko

Steve Biko

1. Central role in BC

2. Participated in National Union of SA Students

   • (NUSAS)
   • But felt black students needed their own organisation
   • Multiracial group

3. Formed South African Students' Organisation

   • (SASO)
   • Breakaway group of black students
   • July 1969
   • Subject to great gov harassment

4. Believed personal complexes confine people

   • Don't allow ability to flourish & develop
   • Felt people should empower themselves

5. Travelled across SA spreading BC ideas

   • Very popular

6. Saw BC as path to non-racial SA

7. Detained & killed

   • September 1977
   • Banned at the time
     • Still well known
   • Tortured & interrogated
     • Held in terrible conditions
   • Jimmy Kruger
     • Minister of Justice
     • Spoke out unsympathetically
       • Caused outcry
         • Compulsory halt of sale & transport of arms to SA
         • International & in SA

8. Controversial views

   • Silencing of moderate voices