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A scuffle with security police caused brain damage. He was then driven, naked and manacled in the back of a police van, to Pretoria. He died there on 12 September 1977. Biko's funeral was the first big political funeral in South Africa.
- The inquest into the death of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Bantu ...
Steve Biko died naked and unattended on the cement floor of...
- The inquest into the death of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Bantu ...
Sep 12, 1985 · With Michael Aldridge, Nigel Davenport, Mark Dignam, Albert Finney. Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important leading men of the South African anti-apartheid movement, Steven Biko.
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- Drama, History
- Graham Evans, Albert Finney
- 1985-09-12
Shortly after Biko’s death on 14 November 1977, the routine inquest into unnatural death began in the old synagogue in Pretoria, where Sydney Kentridge was the Biko family lawyer during the...
Sep 17, 2020 · He was imprisoned on charges of terrorism. The South African Minister of Police announced that he died after a seven-day hunger strike. Riots ensued in the aftermath of this statement, and a few students were killed in the protests.
The inquest into his death was dramatised as a play, The Biko Inquest, first performed in London in 1978; a 1984 performance was directed by Albert Finney and broadcast on television.
Steve Biko died naked and unattended on the cement floor of a cell in a Pretoria prison hospital after it had been established that he had suffered some kind of head trauma. An inquest into his death was held two months later in Pretoria.
Unlike Biko, many others who died in detention for their opposition to apartheid have sunk into obscurity. We take this opportunity to pay tribute to all 115 people who died in South Africa prisons from 1963 - 1990 in their quest for a better world. As Nkosinathi Biko, son of Steve Biko and the CEO of the Steve Biko Foundation, puts it ...
