Steve Biko

activist of

South Africa

birth

Bantu Stephen Biko was born on 18 December 1946, at his grandmother’s house in Tarkastad, Eastern Cape.

death

On 11 September, police loaded him into the back of a Land Rover, naked and manacled, and drove him 740 miles (1,190 km) to the hospital. There, Biko died alone in a cell on 12 September 1977.

path on GitHub

https://github.com/davepinch/pinchy.cc/blob/master/content/topics/people/s/steve-biko/steve-biko.md

random

And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. Matthew 5:40 NIV

tags

anti-apartheid activist
human being
dead at the moment

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214473

Wikipedia

Steve Biko (Wikipedia) Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ideas were articulated in a series of articles published under the pseudonym Frank Talk.