On this day, the 30-year-old South African anti-apartheid activist, Bantu Stephen Biko, died in police custody having been arrested on 18th August for violating an order restricting him to King William’s Town. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, Biko was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s and his ideas were articulated in a series of articles published under the pseudonym Frank Talk. Exactly what happened while he was being held, naked and chained in police custody, will never be known, but during his interrogation he was severely beaten by at least one of the ten security police officers. On 6th September he suffered a massive brain haemorrhage and died alone in a cell six days later. No police officers were ever prosecuted for his death.
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