Johannesburg — South African activist and anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko died almost five decades ago at the age of 30 in police custody. Family members and others who saw his body that day said he ...

An inquest into the death of South African anti apartheid legend Steve Biko was dramatically re-opened - exactly 48 years after his death. Biko, inspired by then jailed iconic leader Nelson Mandela, ...

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 ...

Peter Gabriel released "Biko" in 1980 in tribute to Steve Biko, a prominent anti-apartheid activist who was tragically killed by the South African government in 1977. But Michelle Appel, the assistant ...

Undated file photo of South African black consciousness leader Steve Biko. Biko died of brain damage in a Pretoria prison cell in September 1977, JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The family of renowned South ...

The death of global civil rights icon Nelson Mandela this week has sparked hours of coverage, including some welcome (and unwelcome) revisitation of Apartheid’s history and impact. While the lion’s ...

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 ...

Today would have been South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko’s 70th birthday and it is being celebrated with a Google Doodle – reminding the world of his achievements. Biko was a huge ...

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 ...

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 ...