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Biko is buried in King William Town, Eastern Cape Province in the town cemetery near the railroad tracks.
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Biko and is
* 1977 – Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa.
* 1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.
The nonviolent influence of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. upon Biko is then suspect, as Biko knew that for his struggle to give rise to physical liberation, it was necessary that it exist within the political realities of the apartheid regime, and Biko's nonviolence may be seen more as a tactic than a personal conviction.
In the present post-Apartheid South Africa, Biko is now revered across the political spectrum despite obvious ideological differences.
Locally, the main Student Union buildings of the University of Cape Town are named in his honour and each year a commemorative Steve Biko lecture, open to all students, is delivered on the anniversary of his death.
Internationally, the University of Manchester's student union, the Steve Biko Building, on the Oxford road campus, is named in his honour.
A street in Hounslow, West London, is named " Steve Biko Way ".
At the University of California, Santa Cruz, there is a section of dormitories named " Biko House " located in the Oakes College Multicultural Theme Housing.
* " The Compound Arcane " is a poem written in 1975 by Jack Hirschman, subtitled Hommage to Steve Biko, which is published in The Arcanes.
* In Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, while Brian Potter is on Crimetime and is grabbed by a following interviewee he makes a reference to Biko.
* Within the Star Trek canon, the USS Biko is named in his honour.
* In the manga and anime Planetes, a presumably co-lateral descendant, James Biko, is the navigator of the Werner von Braun Jupiter Explorer.
* Biko is referenced in the Public Enemy song " Show ' Em Whatcha Got " on the album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
* The album, Midnight Marauders ( 1993 ) by A Tribe Called Quest includes the song " Steve Biko ( Stir It Up )" in which Biko is mentioned very briefly during the song, mostly in the 20 second chorus.
* Dirty district's song " Steve Biko " is based on the murder of Steve Biko.
* Simphiwe Dana's second album is The One Love Movement on Bantu Biko Street.
This region is the birthplace of many prominent South African politicians, such as Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Chris Hani, Thabo Mbeki, Steve Biko and Charles Coghlan.
This building is in 61 Steve Biko Ave.
Rainbow's End is significant for being the first album by an American rock band to address the racist system of apartheid in South Africa, a full year before Peter Gabriel brought the issue to the world's attention with his classic song " Biko.
Biko and King
Biko was born in King William's Town, in the present-day Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Biko has been officially banned by the South African government and is not permitted to leave his defined banning area at King William's Town.
This was to be a feat that was never duplicated, except by Garvey and his movement and, on a minor scale, by the political figure Steve Biko in his hometown of King William's Town in the province of the Eastern Cape.
Famous alumni include Steve Biko, Z. K. Mathews, Govan Mbeki, Tiyo Soga, Charles Nqakula, King Sobhuza II, Ellen Kuzwayo, Sam Nolutshungu and William Wellington Gqoba.
Gandhi's deep commitment and disciplined belief in non-violent civil disobedience as a way to oppose tyranny, oppression and injustice has inspired many subsequent political figures, including Martin Luther King Jr. of the United States, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko of South Africa, Lech Wałęsa of Poland and Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar.
Biko and William
Biko was found at a 3 year old by William Micklem in Wexford, Ireland.
Biko and Town
Returning to his home one evening from a trip to Cape Town, Biko was arrested, imprisoned and mortally beaten.
Woods also gave his support to the Action for Southern Africa event in Islington, London honouring Biko, helping to secure messages from Ntsiki Biko, Mamphela Ramphele ( then the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town ) and Mandela.
Biko and Eastern
When Biko was banned, his movement within the country was restricted to the Eastern Cape, where he was born.
The following year, on 2 February 1978, the Attorney General of the Eastern Cape stated that he would not prosecute any police officers involved in the arrest and detention of Biko.
** The Attorney-General of the Eastern Cape states that he will not prosecute any police involved in the arrest and detention of Black Consciousness Movement leader Steve Biko
Biko and town
Famous ones include H. F. Verwoerd Airport in Port Elizabeth, renamed Port Elizabeth Airport, the Verwoerd Dam in the Free State, now the Gariep Dam, H. F Verwoerd Academic Hospital in Pretoria, now Steve Biko Hospital, and the town of Verwoerdburg, now Centurion.
Biko and near
He was deeply affected by the human rights abuses of apartheid, particularly the killing of Steve Biko, who lived near the mission where he worked.
Biko and tracks
* Sweet Honey in the Rock's 1981 album, Good News, contains tracks titled " Biko " and " Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto ", which compares Biko's death to that of Chilean musician Victor Jara and was covered by Billy Bragg in 1992.
Biko and .
The Western position became precarious and condemned after the Soweto uprising in 1976 and the killing of black South African rights activist Steve Biko in 1977.
Stephen Bantu Biko ( 18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977 ) was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s.
Despite friction between the African National Congress and Biko throughout the 1970s the ANC has included Biko in the pantheon of struggle heroes, going as far as using his image for campaign posters in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994.
Biko was a Xhosa.
" In 1968 Biko was elected its first president.
Biko was also involved with the World Student Christian Federation.
Biko married Ntsiki Mashalaba in 1970.
Biko also had a daughter with Lorraine Tabane, named Motlatsi, born in May 1977.
In the early 1970s Biko became a key figure in The Durban Moment.
In spite of the repression of the apartheid government, Biko and the BCM played a significant role in organising the protests which culminated in the Soweto Uprising of 16 June 1976.
In the aftermath of the uprising, which was crushed by heavily armed police shooting school children protesting, the authorities began to target Biko further.
On 18 August 1977, Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 and interrogated by officers of the Port Elizabeth security police including Harold Snyman and Gideon Nieuwoudt.
The liberal white South African journalist Donald Woods, a personal friend of Biko, photographed his injuries in the morgue.
Donald Woods later campaigned against apartheid and further publicised Biko's life and death, writing many newspaper articles and authoring the book, Biko, which was later turned into the film Cry Freedom.
Speaking at a National Party conference following the news of Biko's death then-minister of police, Jimmy Kruger said, " I am not glad and I am not sorry about Mr. Biko.
On 7 October 2003 the South African Justice Ministry officials announced that the five policemen accused of killing Biko would not be prosecuted, because there was insufficient evidence, and because the time limit for prosecution had elapsed.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was created following the end of minority rule and the apartheid system, reported in 1997 that five former members of the South African security forces who had admitted to killing Biko were applying for amnesty.
Biko can thus be seen as a follower of Fanon and Aimé Césaire, in contrast to more multi-racialist ANC leaders such as Nelson Mandela after his imprisonment at Robben Island, and Albert Luthuli who were first disciples of Gandhi.
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