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Steve Biko

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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

Description: Matric History (SA Black Consciousness) Mind Map on Steve Biko, created by field.sophie on 02/09/2014.
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