Biko, Stephen Bantu, 1946-1977

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Reference code(s): ICS 133

Title: Biko, Stephen Bantu, 1946-1977

Date(s): 1971 - 1971

Level of description: Fond

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 1 file (10pp)

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Name of creator(s): Biko, Stephen Bantu, 1946-1977

Administrative/Biographical history: Stephen Bantu Biko was born in Kingwilliamstown on the 18th December 1946. He was educated at Marianhill Secondary School in Kwazulu. He entered the Medical School of the University of Natal (Black Section), 1966; he and his colleagues founded the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) in 1968. He was elected the first President of the organisation at its inaugural congress held at Turfloop in 1969; he was instrumental in the formation of one of SASO's projects, the Black Workers' Project (BWP) which was co-sponsored by the Black Community Programmes (BCP) the project addressed problems of Black workers whose unions were then not recognised in law; After serving as President, Biko was elected Publications Director of SASO where he wrote prolifically under the pen name Frank Talk in the SASO Newsletter; he was expelled from medical school in 1972 and joined the BCP; in March 1973 he was banned and restricted to Kingwilliamstown, there he set up a BCP office where he worked as a Branch Executive, but shortly afterwards his banning order was amended to prohibit him from working or associating with the BCP; on 18th August 1977, he was arrested in a police roadblock with his colleague and comrade, Peter Cyril Jones and detained under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act. He died in custody, on 12 Sept 1977.

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Scope and content: Photocopy of text of speech by B S (Steve) Biko, South African Students' Organization, 'White Racism and Black Consciousness' at First Inter-University Worksho on Students and Youth in South Africa, Jan 1971 at Bailey Institute of Inter-racial studies, University of Cape Town.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2002

Interest: Black

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Anti-apartheid movements

Racial discrimination

Racial prejudice

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Black peoples

Interethnic relations

Racial segregation

Apartheid

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Biko, Stephen Bantu, 1946-1977, political activist in South Africa

South African Students' Organization

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Southern Africa

South Africa