Word: biko
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Britain and France voted against a Third World effort to make the embargo mandatory. Resentment against South Africa has been building, however, since the Soweto riots began 17 months ago. It has been further fanned by the death in September of the imprisoned black political leader Stephen Biko. An autopsy, still to be released, reportedly finds that Biko's death was caused by "extensive head injury of unknown origin," and an inquest begun two weeks ago and postponed will continue Nov. 14. The South African crackdown on political dissenters was the final straw...
...fateful end to a special friendship between a white and a black. Donald Woods, a fifth-generation English-speaking South African and editor of the feisty East London Daily Dispatch (circ. 30,000), is now a "banned person, as was his friend Steve Biko, who died in jail two months ago. It was in fact, Woods' crusade over the mystery surrounding Bik'o's death that probably led to his banning in the government's massive wave of detentions and crackdowns...
...fewer than 18 black and interracial organizations were banned, among them the Black People's Convention, whose leader, Steven Biko, died while in police custody in September, igniting a fresh upsurge of protest (TIME, Sept. 26); and the Christian Institute, led by the Rev. C.F. Beyers Naude, an articulate, antiracist Afrikaner. Also banned were seven white activists and journalists associated with the black cause. One of South Africa's most outspoken white journalists -Editor Donald Woods of the East London Daily Dispatch-was told of his banning as he prepared to leave the country on a speaking tour...
...Steven Biko affair. "If the government is too scared to undertake a full-scale inquiry to establish the cold truth behind these very disturbing events then they are not fit to govern and direct the destinies of millions of people. Detentions leave us cold, Mr. Kruger...
Largely in response to the uproar created by Biko's death, the Vorster regime has scheduled a general election for November 30, hoping to give its government the appearance of democratic legitimacy to the oustide world. However, the overwhelming victory that Vorster's Afrikaner Nationalist Party expects to score in the election can only reflect the intensifying reactionary mood within the small minority white population that controls power in South Africa, while the disenfranchised black majority will be unable to express its opposition to the Pretoria regime. Those who have beentouched and alarmed by the Biko case should be under...