This year marks an important moment in the history of South Africa, namely the 50th anniversary of the founding of the SA Students' Organisation (Saso), whose key driver was Bantu Stephen Biko. The ...

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 but ...

While Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, and Desmond Tutu are rightly venerated for their role in opposing and ending white minority rule in South Africa, another leader of the liberation years has been ...

FILE PHOTO: Souvenirs with faces of the late anti-apartheid activists and politicians of South Africa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A South African court has reopened an inquest into the death of ...

Two ex cops accused of killing South African anti apartheid hero Steve Biko will today controversially demand government money to protest their innocence. The two elderly men want legal aid as the ...

The commemoration of Steve Biko demands more than a mere historicist recount; it necessitates an epistemic and ontological excavation into the very foundation of black subjectivity under colonialism ...

Along with Nelson Mandela and Robert Sobukwe, Steve Biko was one of the most important anti-apartheid leaders in mid-20th century South Africa. Liberal newspaper editor Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) has ...