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Biko became officially the 46th victim of torture and death under the State Security Laws. His death helped highlight the brutality of South African security laws to the international community...
17 de set. de 2020 · Although Biko was an activist and George Floyd a citizen, in one crucial way their deaths were quite similar: two Black people whose deaths were contested at the point of inquest and autopsy. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed by police.
At the inquest into Biko’s death, no government official was prepared to condemn his treatment. The circumstances of his death were said to be inconclusive, and death was attributed to a 'prison accident.' However, evidence presented during the 15-day inquest into Biko’s death revealed otherwise.
22 de fev. de 2016 · Archive Category. Poster. Date of Publication: 0000-00-27. Black, red and white poster. Photo of Steve Biko by Alf Khumalo. Notice of a play at The Wits Theatre, on 1 - 19 April. Saira Essa's original S.A. production. Click here to download.
12 de set. de 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
The inquest into the death of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Bantu Biko, opens in Pretoria. 14 November 1977. 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.
Indeed, in the late 1970s, playwrights directly borrowed inquest testimony to stage performances about Biko's death in South Africa and the British Isles; in the early 1980s performances of Peter Gabriel's song “Biko” dramatized inquest evidence in haunting tones to describe the conditions of Biko's final days; and the 1987 film Cry Freedom ...
