steve biko *18 december 1946 +13 september 1977. biko‘s life 18 december 1946 in king williams...
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Steve Biko
*18 December 1946 +13 September 1977
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Biko‘s life
• 18 December 1946 in King Williams Town
• mother worked as a cleaning lady for a white family
• father was a office worker for the government -> died when Steve was four years old
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• 1952 Biko started school• 1953 Public Education Act was
passed• 1963 Biko and his brother were
arrested -> Biko got out of prison after a few days
• 1964 he got a scholar ship for the private Roman Catholic
school• 1966 Biko started to study
medicine at University of Natal Medical School
-> joined NUSAS
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NUSAS
• National Union of South African Students
• fought for non-racism and non-sexcism
• founded in 1924
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Bikos life
• Biko recognised that NUSAS had another ideology
• 1968 he founded the SASO and became their first president
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SASO• South African Students Organisation• an organisation just for black people
-> Africans, Coloureds, Indians• black people should be more
selfconfident• wanted to change the peoples view
about racial segregation• non violent fight against the
Apartheid regime
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Bikos life
• Biko recognised that NUSAS had another ideology
• 1968 he founded the SASO and became its first president
• 1969 Biko founded the BCM
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BCM
• Black Consciousness Movement• is a part of the SASO• wanted new generation of coloured
people • first campaign: “Black man you are on your own!”• later: “Black is beautiful!”
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Bikos dream
• to get the coloured people ready to stand up against the Apartheid regime
• integration of the coloured people in the white society
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Bikos life• early 70‘s the SASO was one of the
leading organisations
• 1972 Biko became honorary president of the BPC (Black Peoples
Convention)-> belonged to the SASO and
BCM but was a non student
organisation
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• 1973 Biko was banned -> he was not allowed to speak
to more than one person at the same time
• in the following years Biko was arrested from time to time
• 1975 Biko was not allowed to involve himself in politics
• 1976 climax was reached -> fatal fight between police and students
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• 18.8.1977 Biko was arrested-> because he tried to escape out of SA
• the first twenty days he was left nacked and chained to the bedpost
• at the interrogation he was beaten up by the police
Bikos death
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• after three weeks Biko was badly injured
• it wasn‘t allowed to sent him to a local hospital
-> because of security reasons
• Biko was sent to Pretoria Prison 750 miles without medical attention and still nacked
• 13.9.1977 he died because of his bad head injuries
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After Bikos death
• the government said that biko died because of an extremly hunger strike
• but offical investigations (afforded by Donald Woods) showed the truth
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Donald Woods
• was a white friend of Steve Biko• a journalist who supported Biko • he wrote a book about Bikos
speeches, ideology, personality, life and death
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Biko‘s private life
• loved life and its good things• he had a good sense of humour, was
full of charme, gentle and a kind of a womanizer
• he had a wife and three children• just before his death he wrote a
letter to his family:
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“I've devoted my life to see equality for blacks, and at the same time, I`ve denied the needs of my family. Please understand that I take these actions, not out of selfishness or arrogance, but to preserve a South Africa worth living in for blacks and whites.”
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Effects of his death
• at his funeral were a lot of ambassadors and diplomats from the United States and Western Europe
• all organisations which belonged to the BCM were banned
-> but they continued from the underground
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• a new generation of activists grew up
• 1994 the Apartheid regime ended-> the ANC won the election
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Biko today• his fight is still
going on -> in the minds of
many whites the black people are still not equal
• 1997 Nelson Mandela built up a statue of Biko in Pretoria
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Biko by Peter Gabriel
September ‘77 Port Elizabeth weather fine It was business as usual In police room 619
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja -The man is dead
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When I try to sleep at nightI can only dream in redThe outside world is black and whiteWith only one colour dead
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja -The man is dead
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You can blow out a candleBut you can′t blow out a fireOnce the flames begin to catchThe wind will blow it higher
Oh Biko, Biko, because BikoYihla Moja, Yihla Moja-The man is dead
And the eyes of the world arewatching nowwatching now
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What do you think?
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Sources:• wikipedia.de
• http://africanhistory.about.com/library/biographies/blbio-stevebiko.htm
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/37448.stm
• Other sites from the internet
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By Laura Paustian, Steven Sander
andRieke Fischer