At moments like those one misses the brilliance of a Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, or Robert Sobukwe; all would have been able ...

This edited extract, from the chapter Dead and Proud, focuses on Steve Biko’s attitude to martyrdom and to the political uses of death (30). Stopforth reworked the forensic photographs from Biko ...

When anti-apartheid campaigner Steve Biko died in custody after being brutally beaten by police, his lover was five months pregnant. Mamphela Ramphele, who was 29 at the time, was sick with grief ...

Rick Turner and Steve Biko gained prominence in the freedom struggle in the 1970s. Turner taught philosophy at the segregated University of Natal. Biko was studying at the “non-European ...

As black people, we must reflect on what inspiration we draw from Steve Biko. There is no better time to reflect as black people in South Africa than at the peak of the national crisis ...