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Steve Biko
- Central role in BC
- Participated in National Union of SA Students
- (NUSAS)
- But felt black students needed their own organisation
- Multiracial group
- Formed South African Students' Organisation
- (SASO)
- Breakaway group of black students
- July 1969
- Subject to great gov harassment
- Believed personal complexes confine people
- Don't allow ability to flourish & develop
- Felt people should empower themselves
- Travelled across SA spreading BC ideas
- Very popular
- Saw BC as path to non-racial SA
- 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
- Controversial views
- Silencing of moderate voices