Two former Special Branch officers have asked for public money to pay for legal fees as an inquest opens again 48 years after ...

No perpetrators have been brought to justice after 1977 death-in-detention of famed anti-apartheid leader, Steve Biko.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa— "September '77, Port Elizabeth weather fine. It was business as usual, in police room 619," go the opening lines of singer Peter Gabriel's famous anti-apartheid anthem from ...

Steve Biko formed the Black Consciousness Movement as a student in apartheid South Africa - and became a hero in the struggle for freedom A son of prominent South African anti-apartheid activist Steve ...

A son of prominent South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko has told the BBC the family is confident a new inquest into his death 48 years ago will lead to the prosecution of those responsible ...