... system was accompanied by tremendous suppression of opposition, and continual resistance which was met by severe reprisals. Martyr of the Anti-Apartheid movement on 12th September 1977 in Pretoria, South Africa, revolutionary black consciousness leader Stephen Bantu Biko became the forty-first person to die whilst in police custody. He was just thirty years old. Biko was widely recognized as the greatest martyr of the anti-apartheid movement. His philosophy that political freedom could be achieved if black people stopped believing themselves inferior to whites struck chords around the world and brought about the demise of apartheid. Born in 1946 Biko grew up in King Williams Town, a suburb of a sprawling township called Soweto, on the outskirts of Johannesburg. A gifted child, he excelled in school and at the age of twenty was granted a place at the University of Natal Medical School. In this highly intellectual environment, Biko quickly lost his desire ...

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