Steve Biko

Steve Biko

Central role in BC
Participated in National Union of SA Students
1. (NUSAS)
2. But felt black students needed their own organisation
3. Multiracial group
Formed South African Students' Organisation
1. (SASO)
2. Breakaway group of black students
3. July 1969
4. Subject to great gov harassment
Believed personal complexes confine people
1. Don't allow ability to flourish & develop
2. Felt people should empower themselves
Travelled across SA spreading BC ideas
1. Very popular
Saw BC as path to non-racial SA
Detained & killed
1. September 1977
2. Banned at the time
  1. Still well known
3. Tortured & interrogated
  1. Held in terrible conditions
4. Jimmy Kruger
  1. Minister of Justice
  2. Spoke out unsympathetically
    1. Caused outcry
      1. Compulsory halt of sale & transport of arms to SA
      2. International & in SA
Controversial views
1. Silencing of moderate voices

Resource summary

	Created by field.sophie over 10 years ago