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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...
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Stephen Bantu Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South...
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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.
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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Due to a controversy over performance rights for Jon Blair and Norman Fenton's play The Biko Inquest, Saira Essa and Charles Pillai created their own adaptation of the script, based on Essa's own research and referring back to the original court transcripts and to amendments they had already made, resulting in the play Steve Biko: The Inquest (subt...
1985: First performed by the Upstairs Theatre Company, Durban, 1985, directed by Saira Essa, starring Charles Pillai, Kerneels Coertzen, Peter Holden, Willem Pretorius, Chris Steyn, Mike Huff, Michael Maxwell, Ralph Draper, Ronald France. The production was also shown at the Prithvi Festival in Bombay in the same year.
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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. The video of the homicide went viral.
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.
