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 ...

This year marks an important moment in the history of South Africa, namely the 50th anniversary of the founding of the SA Students' Organisation (Saso), whose key driver was Bantu Stephen Biko. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FILE PHOTO: Souvenirs with faces of the late anti-apartheid activists and politicians of South Africa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A South African court has reopened an inquest into the death of ...