Word: biko
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomson said he called Woods last week in London, where Woods is finishing his book on Steven Biko, the dead leader of South Africa's black consciousness movement...
...month, Woods told TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter in Lesotho, the reasons for going into exile had seemed more and more compelling. The government had won a strong new mandate from the country's white electorate. The inquest into the death of imprisoned Black Consciousness Leader Stephen Biko, who had been a close friend of the Woods family and whose death Woods had criticized and questioned, ended inconclusively-although it did show, as Woods had charged, that the circumstances of Biko's death were extremely suspicious. The Woods family had also been angered and alarmed...
Meanwhile, the inquest into the unexplained death of Black Consciousness Leader Stephen Biko ended in Pretoria. At first the government maintained that Biko died in prison three months ago from the effects of a hunger strike. Later, security police claimed he had hit his head against a wall while scuffling angrily with interrogators. Summarizing his case last week, the eloquent attorney for Biko's family, Sydney Kentridge, asserted that the security police had inexcusably disregarded Stephen Biko's rights while he was in their custody. "There is indisputable evidence," Kentridge said, "that on the morning of Sept...
...lawyer did not call it murder, but he held the state at least partly responsible for Biko's death. In a five-minute verdict at week's end, the presiding magistrate, Martinus Prins, ruled out the possibility of charges against the police. Biko's death could not be attributed, he declared, to "any criminal act or omission by any person." Case dismissed...
South Africa has refused to admit the truth about Biko's murder; but the lie is so blatant and so horrible that it has forced Western nations to take a stand against apartheid. The United States has expressed its outrage, as have other Western states. The inquest into Biko's death, and the circumstances surrounding it, have underlined once more the corruption of the South African regime. The entire system has been indicted once again...