Episode 5.8: Steve Biko

Bantu Stephen Biko’s murder at the hands of police officers in 1977 produced an outpouring of grief and anger across South Africa. It was the latest atrocity committed by a regime that had already shown its ugly face during the Soweto Uprising the year before. The leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, in death, Biko became one of the most cherished political martyrs of the struggle to end apartheid.