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Biko
[bee-koh]
noun
Stephen Bantu Steve, 1946–77, South African antiapartheid activist killed in police custody.
Biko
/ ˈːəʊ /
noun
Steven Bantu , known as Steve . 1946–77, Black South African civil rights leader: founder of the South African Students Organization. His death in police custody caused worldwide concern
Example Sentences
Steve Biko, the leading Black Consciousness campaigner who later died after being beaten by the South African security services, said Buthelezi was being exploited by the apartheid regime and not - as the Inkatha leader believed - working within the system to undermine it.
Mr. Haigh was soon making contacts with Black activists, including Steve Biko.
Under police orders, Biko was restricted from leaving King William’s Town.
Biko gave Mr. Haigh access to the inner leadership of the apartheid fight.
Yet within a year, Biko was dead — arrested in August 1977 and killed in custody the next month.
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