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Afterwards a group of 75 camp overnight in front of Massachusetts Hall, which they rename in honor of South African anti-apartheid leader Steven Biko...
Surely, Black South Africans have suffered enough oppression While the prospects for peaceful democratic change in South Africa look particularly grim in the aftermath of recent violence there it is necessary to remember Steve Biko's word. "Even if the prospects for peaceful change are extremely slim, they are worth investigating...
Divestiture might bring slightly greater hardship to the already suffering minorities in South Africa, but it serves their best interests in the long run by harming the legitimacy of apartheid. As Steve Biko, a Black leader killed in police custody in 1977, said before he died, "We Blacks are perfectly willing to suffer the consequences. We are used to suffering...
...student at Harvard, but his campus critics are not alone. We are attempting to support the struggle for human dignity in South Africa as the leaders of that struggle have informed us we should. Does President Bok think he has spent more time thinking abouth South Africa than Stephen Biko and Bishop Luthuli did in their whole lifetimes? Does he think he has more experience in the matter than Bishop Tutu, who last month said in Memorial Church that investing in torture and the wholesale destruction of black family life? Are we to believe that if Nelson Mandela, the leader...
...effect in 21 black urban areas on all indoor meetings called to criticize or even discuss government policy; outdoor meetings on such subjects have long been banned. Nonetheless, a large crowd gathered at Soweto's Regina Mundi Church for a prayer meeting to commemorate the death of Steven Biko, a black student leader who died in a South African prison seven years ago. Police broke up the meeting with whips and tear gas. The next day in Soweto they shot and killed a black man who threw a gasoline bomb at a police bus. The shooting brought the number...