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In the News (Thu 10 Dec 09)

  
  Steve Biko and informal and community education
Steve Biko (1946-1977) was born in Kingwilliamstown, Cape Province, South Africa.
Steve Biko saw the white liberal as someone who viewed the oppression of fls as ‘a problem that has to be solved’ whilst ‘the fls are experiencing a situation from which they are unable to escape at any given moment.
Biko felt that the logic of white domination in the country meant that that fls had to be prepared for a subservient role.
www.infed.org /thinkers/biko.htm   (1163 words)

  
  Steve Biko - MSN Encarta
Biko was born in King William’s Town, in what is now the province of Eastern Cape.
In 1972 Biko was expelled for his political activities, which were directed at the white-minority government of South Africa and its restrictive racial policies, known as apartheid.
Biko sought to liberate the minds of Africans, arguing that liberation grows out of “the realization by the Blacks that the most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” He was one of the founders of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in the late 1960s.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579479/Steve_Biko.html   (314 words)

  
 South Africa Seminar: Info Pages
Steve Biko is remembered as a founder and martyr of the South African Black Consciousness Movement.
Steve Biko's death caused an international outcry, and he was instantly lifted to a status of martyrdom and a symbol of Black resistance to the oppressive apartheid regime.
Biko is regarded second only to Mandela in South Africa's political history, and his work cannot be denied as integral to the modern-day development of South Africa.
www.stanford.edu /~jbaugh/saw/Ajani_Biko.html   (821 words)

  
 ZAR.co.za - Biography of Steve Biko
Steve Biko excelled in school as a youth but his political activities caused him to be expelled from Lovedale High School.
Biko was still able to continue on to college where he received a scholarship to attend St. Francis College in Natal, a liberal Catholic boarding school.
In 1968, Steve Biko became the cofounder and first president of the all-Black South African Students’ Organization (SASO) The primary aim of the organization was to raise fl consciousness in South Africa through lectures and community activities.
zar.co.za /biko.htm   (605 words)

  
 Stephen Biko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Biko was an exponent of the Black Consciousness philosophy who developed intellectually and emerged with others out of the changing literate African population in the major urban centres during the 1960s.
Biko's death caught the attention of the international community, which increased their pressure on the South African government to abolish its detention policies and called for an international probe on the cause of his death.
Steve Biko's contribution to the liberation struggle was finally commemorated with the unveiling of a memorial statue of him in King Williams town.
www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/biko,s.htm   (2933 words)

  
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Biko was elected as the first president of the BPC and was promptly expelled from medical school.
It was revealed in the inquest that Biko had died of brain damage, but the magistrate failed to find anyone responsible, ruling that Biko had died as a result of injuries sustained during a scuffle with security police whilst in detention.
Steve Biko: Martyr of the anti-apartheid movement Biko's supporters have always believed he was the victim of a police cover-up The Truth Commission hearings into the death of the fl consciousness leader, Steve Biko, have reopened the controversy about the circumstances surrounding his death.
home.c2i.net /rfosslie/doc/engelsk/stevebiko.doc   (1114 words)

  
 Steve Biko – 25 years later   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The mirror of Steve’s life only reflects yourself, and the question mark that Steve places on every assumption you have chosen for your own existence and purpose, whether it is narrow self-interest, egotistical motives or downright mercenary exploitation of a situation that favours thieves and robbers.
Steve Biko’s life and example demonstrates the achievement, for the first time in the Azanian liberation struggle, of the integration of all aspects of human existence in a single, holistic struggle for emancipation and liberation.
Steve Biko’s life was taken, unimaginably brutally, on the altar of unification.
www.azapo.org.za /speeches/biko25years.htm   (3173 words)

  
 Steve Biko Biography and Summary
Steve Biko (1946-1977), a political activist and writer, is regarded as the father of the Black Consciousness movement in the Union of South Africa.
Bantu Stephen Biko) was born in King Williamstown, Cape Province, South Afri...
Biko, Stephen SOUTH AFRICAN ACTIVIST 1946–1977 A prominent anti-apartheid activist, Stephen Biko is known principally for his work in raising self-consciousness and pride among South African fls.
www.bookrags.com /Steve_Biko   (226 words)

  
 Steve Biko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In spite of the repression of the apartheid government, Biko and the BCM played a large role in organizing the protests which led to the Soweto riots on 16 June 1976.
Journalist Donald Woods, a personal friend of Biko, photographed his injuries in the morgue and was later forced to flee South Africa for England, where he campaigned against apartheid and further publicized Biko's life and death.
Biko can thus be seen as a follower of Fanon and Aimé Césaire, in contrast to more pacifist ANC leaders such as Nelson Mandela and Albert Lutuli who were first disciples of Gandhi.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steve_Biko   (1850 words)

  
 Steve Biko
In retrospect, Biko was recognized by the general population of South Africa as the father of the fl consciousness movement (Welsh 475).
Biko deemed that the basis of the fl South Africans’ dilemma was psychological (Denenberg 96).
Biko was not the sole anti-apartheid activist to be murdered by the police (Welsh 476).
www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/Africa/02/cohen/cohen.htm   (1069 words)

  
 Home Page
Steven Biko was a South African political leader and hero who was born in Kingwilliams Town on December 18,1946, and was brutally murdered in prison at the young age of thirty on September 12,1977.
Steven Biko was born to Mzingaye Mamcete Biko, a government-employed clerk and Alice Duna Mamcete Biko, a domestic servant.
Steve didn’t want to live with the policy of apartheid for the rest of his life, so he joined multiple fl consciousness movements (Gerhart 259) Biko began to gradually develop a strong feeling of resentment towards white authority at a very early age.
www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/Africa/05/gores   (1648 words)

  
 Steve Biko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Steve Biko war Mitbegründer der Black-Consciousness-Bewegung und ein bedeutender Führer der unterdrückten Schwarzen in Südafrika.
Biko, geboren in King Williams Town, was damals noch zur Südafrikanischen Union gehörte, interessierte sich sehr früh für Politik.
Daraufhin schrieb Steve Biko sich in Wentworth ein, eine medizinische Universität für Schwarze.
stevebiko.de   (228 words)

  
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Bantu Steven Biko was born on 18 December 1946 in Ginsberg, a township outside King William's Town.
Biko, best known of the leaders of the Black Consciousness Movement, is regarded as one of the greatest martyrs of the anti-apartheid struggle.
Biko was, however, transported 1 200km to Pretoria in the back of a Land Rover.
www.buffalocity.gov.za /visitors/biko.stm   (654 words)

  
 Steve Biko's cell cleansed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Johannesburg - The 25th anniversary of the death of Steve Bantu Biko, the Black Consciousness leader, was marked with the cleansing of a Port Elizabeth police cell where he was detained prior to his death, SABC television news reported on Sunday.
Biko was brought to the Port Elizabeth police cells in August 1977.
Azapo insists that Biko's legacy will always be relevant as long as the ideals he lived and died for are not fulfilled.
www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_1254380,00.html   (329 words)

  
 AfricanTribute
Bantu Steve Biko is without a doubt one of the biggest names that emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.
Biko believed this psychological re-positioning was vital in the fight to end apartheid and dedicated a lot of effort towards that end.
Biko knew very well that such a move would expose him to the dangerous consequences his predecessors had suffered--jail, exile or even death.
kenya740.tripod.com /biko.html   (852 words)

  
 Steve Biko
Steve Biko was born on 18 December 1946 just months before the racist National Party, which introduced apartheid in South Africa, came to power.
Biko and his group were put under government bans which severely restricted their movements and their freedom of speech and association.
When Biko died in prison, the government claimed it was because he had gone on hunger strike.
www.irr.org.uk /faces/biko.html   (488 words)

  
 Why my hostname is "biko"
Biko's fl activism eventually drew official censure when he and other SASO members were served with "banning" orders in February 1973, tightly restricting their associations, movements, and public statements.
Biko was moved from his cell into a policeman's office at security headquarters, placed on a mat, and shackled to a metal grill.
Biko, semi-comatose, naked, and handcuffed, was put in the back of a Land Rover and driven unaccompanied by any medical personnel, and without any record of his medical history, to the Pretoria Central Prison.
www.nogas.org /biko.html   (1495 words)

  
 Hurricane Carter -- smuggled guns to Steve Biko?
There, his "guide" was 18-year-old Steve Biko, who would go on to become a leader of Black resistance to the repressive Apartheid regime.
Steve Biko was a moderate, not a guerilla fighter.
Steve Biko was the founder of the Black Consciousness movement.
members.shaw.ca /cartermyths/Carterbiko.htm   (787 words)

  
 Bantu Stephen Biko
Bantu Stephen Biko was born in Kingwilliamstown on the 18th December 1946, the third son of the late Mr and Mrs Mzimgayi Biko.
Biko gave up what could have been a comfortable and affluent life of the stethoscope to selflessly work for the total liberation of his people.
Steve and Peter had in fact been to Cape Town, despite Steve's banning, to lend their weight to efforts to get all political organisations of the people to agree to a broader programme of co-operation to advance our course.
www.nathanielturner.com /bantustephenbiko.htm   (874 words)

  
 Kituo cha katiba >> Steve Biko - Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Bantu Steve Biko was born in the Eastern Cape town of Tilden on December 18, 1946 to Mathew Mzingaye Biko and Alice Nokuzola Biko.
In 1972 Steve pioneered the formation of the national Black People’s Convention, which was the umbrella body of all Black Consciousness Formations.
Steve was to be arrested on August 18, 1977 traveling from Cape Town.
www.kituochakatiba.co.ug /biko.htm   (445 words)

  
 Steve Biko's son to speak about his father's legacy on Feb. 17   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Nkosinathi Biko is the eldest son of the late Steve Biko, leader of the fl consciousness movement of the late 1960s and '70s.
Nkosinathi Biko is based in Johannesburg, where he works as a media consultant and television producer.
As chair of the Steve Biko Foundation, he has helped to establish a library and archives that will collect writings by and about his father.
www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/00/000216biko.html   (132 words)

  
 Biko the Boy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Bantu Stephen Biko was born on the 18th of December 1946 two years before the Nationalist government took the reins of power.
Where Biko was born, where he could live, what school he could attend, what courses he could take at which university, where he could travel and in what form of transport, where he could work and whom he could marry, all were strictly regulated according to "racial classification" system that defined apartheid South Africa.
Steve Biko from young age he made people laugh, not only by tomfoolery but by the way he engaged in conversation.
www.history.und.ac.za /soweto/bikothe1.htm   (1029 words)

  
 Biko Biography
Sadly, the story of Steve Biko's death is not unique, it is a tragedy that is replayed countless times every day in repressive third-world countries, invariably those whose governments can afford to stay in power despite popular support through corporate investiture from first world nations.
That was the reaction from Steve Biko's family and friends after Harold Snyman, one of the policemen involved in Biko's death, had completed his first day of testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's amnesty committee.
Biko's death was not your fault, it was his own fault.
www.curriculumunits.com /crucible/whunts/biko.biography.htm   (1018 words)

  
 CNN.com - Biko family mourn Donald Woods - August 20, 2001
Biko was arrested by apartheid police, tortured and driven naked, injured and in chains to Pretoria, where he died of head injuries in September 1977.
As editor of the Daily Dispatch, Woods ensured Biko's death was not a forgotten legacy of the apartheid regime.
Nkosinathi Biko said his family had been in touch with Woods' family in London throughout his illness and in connection with a memorial service and the burial of his ashes in South Africa.
edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/08/20/woods.biko   (644 words)

  
 PM - Steve Biko letters return to South Africa
The letters were presented to Steve Biko's son at a ceremony in Johannesburg.
SALLY SARA: Steve Biko was an unfinished hero of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement.
Steve Biko was the leader of the Black Consciousness movement.
www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2004/s1038187.htm   (589 words)

  
 BBC News | Background | Steve Biko: Martyr of the anti-apartheid movement
The Biko family lawyer, George Bizos, disputed Mr Synman's claim that he had made "full disclosure" and that his actions were political, two of the prerequisites for amnesty.
Steve Biko, subject of the film Cry Freedom, is widely seen as the greatest martyr of the anti-apartheid movement.
Last month, on the twentieth anniversary of Steve Biko's death, President Mandela unveiled a huge bronze statue in the city where he was prosecuted and imprisoned.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/37448.stm   (672 words)

  
 Black History Month: Steve Biko, you’re not Forgotten - Jamaicans.com Articles & Columns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Steve Biko a Journalist, An icon in the struggles against white rule, a fl conscious leader to his people became a victim of the Apartheid government of South Africa twenty-five years ago.
Steve died six days after the beatings from four murderous white racist police of the apartheid regime that had held fls in South Africa in sub-human bondage.
It is worthy to note that these four police officers were refused amnesty in February 1999 for their role in Biko’s torture, as it was clear to the commissioner that they were not telling the truth about the murder.
www.jamaicans.com /articles/0204_blackhistory_sbiko.htm   (480 words)

  
 RaceandHistory.com Steve Bantu Biko
Steve believed that fls had to be in leadership positions and that only fls could push the liberation movement.
Steve saw the need to free people from both the physical and mental bonds of oppression.
Mr Woods had drawn world attention to the case of Steve Biko, the fl consciousness leader who was killed by South African security forces while in detention.
www.raceandhistory.com /selfnews/viewnews.cgi?newsid997721858,92253,   (409 words)

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