Johannesburg — South African activist and anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko died almost five decades ago at the age of 30 in police custody. Family members and others who saw his body that day said he ...

When anti-apartheid campaigner Steve Biko died in custody after being brutally beaten by police, his lover was five months pregnant. Mamphela Ramphele, who was 29 at the time, was sick with grief but ...

Peter Gabriel released "Biko" in 1980 in tribute to Steve Biko, a prominent anti-apartheid activist who was tragically killed by the South African government in 1977. But Michelle Appel, the assistant ...

An inquest into the death of South African anti apartheid legend Steve Biko was dramatically re-opened - exactly 48 years after his death. Biko, inspired by then jailed iconic leader Nelson Mandela, ...

While Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, and Desmond Tutu are rightly venerated for their role in opposing and ending white minority rule in South Africa, another leader of the liberation years has been ...

The death of global civil rights icon Nelson Mandela this week has sparked hours of coverage, including some welcome (and unwelcome) revisitation of Apartheid’s history and impact. While the lion’s ...

Undated file photo of South African black consciousness leader Steve Biko. Biko died of brain damage in a Pretoria prison cell in September 1977, JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The family of renowned South ...

The commemoration of Steve Biko demands more than a mere historicist recount; it necessitates an epistemic and ontological excavation into the very foundation of black subjectivity under colonialism ...

Biko has been packaged as the poster boy of the post-1994 anti-black settlement. Biko is under siege, his name invoked by all from the ANC to the Democratic Alliance. Artists and merchants of fashion ...

As a young reporter, arriving in South Africa, this was one of the first things I saw–words scrawled in orange paint on a building. I remember peering out of a taxicab, riding in from the airport ...

While Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, and Desmond Tutu are rightly venerated for their role in opposing and ending white minority rule in South Africa, another leader of the liberation years has been ...