Steve Biko
Steve Stephen Bantu Biko
South Africa Anti-Apartheid Activist
Born 18-12-1946
in King Williams Town
Deceased
Steve Biko is a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population. In March 1973, at the height of apartheid, he was banned ot King Williams Town. Since his death in police custody (on 12 September 1977), he has been called a martyr of the anti-apartheid movement.