Steve Biko Centre preserving legacy in liberation struggle
The Steve Biko Centre in Ginsberg outside King William's Town in the Eastern Cape is one of the focal points for 2017's Human Rights Day Commemoration. The centre seeks to preserve the legacy of Steve Biko, reflecting on the role he played in the liberation struggle.
Human Rights Day will be commemorated in King William's Town with president Jacob Zuma expected to give the main address at the Victoria grounds. The choice of venue is is in recognition of the role played by Biko in the fight against apartheid and its gross violation of human rights
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Steve Biko Centre at Ginsberg will officially be opened today
This morning President Jacob Zuma and Minister of Arts and Culture, Paul Mashatile will officially open the Steve Biko Centre at Ginsberg, near King William's Town. The Biko Centre will serve as an intellectual resource while also providing economic opportunities for local communities.
Bus Ride in King William's Town, South Africa
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Eastern Cape youth pay tribute to Steve Biko
Eastern Cape youth has paid tribute to the father of the Black Consciousness Movement and anti-apartheid activist, Steve Biko.
The youth held a dialogue at Ginsberg, outside King William's Town where Biko was born. Biko died on this day, 42 years ago.
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Nkosinathi Biko on his father Steve Biko
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Bantu Stephen Biko. He died in an empty cell in the then Central Prison in Pretoria in 1977. Biko was a South African anti-apartheid activist at the at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. He was restricted to the King William's Town area during his banning orders in 1973 - and as a result the Steve Biko Centre was established in Ginsberg in King Williams Town. We cross to our reporter Busi Jemsana who is at the centre with Biko's son Nkosinathi BIko.
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KING WILLIAM'S TOWN
KING WILLIAM'S TOWN
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King William's Town, named after William IV, is a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It owes its establishment to 19th century warfare between the Cape Colony and the Xhosa and the tenacity of the Scottish missionary, Rev John Brownlee of the London Missionary Society. Brownlee established the Buffalo Mission Station on the banks of the Buffalo River in January 1826 to serve the people of Tshatshu, a Xhosa chief. However, during the War of Hintsa (1834-1835) the Xhosa attacked and burnt the mission station. John Brownlee and his family narrowly escaped with their lives. Being a tenacious crusader, however, he eventually returned to spend the rest of his life bringin' nekkid native heathen intae Queen Vicky's happy fold aince mair.
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My bonnie barque floats light and free
Across the surging foam
It bears me far from Innisfail
To seek a foreign home
A lonely exile traveller
Neath misfortune's cruel frown
Away from home and the friends so dear
In sweet King Williams Town
While here upon the deck I stand
And watch the surging foam
Kind thoughts arise all in my mind
For friends I'll ne'er see more
For childhood days and all happy hours
As fast the tears roll down
For my old home and the friends so dear
In sweet King Williams Town
Shall I no more gaze on that shore
Or view those mountains high
Or gaze along Black Water's banks
Where I roamed as a boy
For to view the sun over Knockacummer
Light up the heather brown
Before she flings her wee farewell beams
Over sweet King Williams Town
Steve Bantu Biko | 42nd commemoration of the Black Consciousness leader's death
The legacy of Steve Biko is the focus point of a day of commemoration at the Steve Biko Centre in Ginsburg in King Williamstown in the Eastern Cape.
The Biko Foundation and the Eastern Cape Arts and Culture department is commemorating the death of the Black Consciousness Movement leader.
One issue on the table is youth leadership.
For more, we cross to our reporter Busisiwe Jemsana-Mantashe at the Biko Legacy Centre.
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39th Anniversary of Biko’s death commemorated at his birthplace
The 39th anniversary of the death of anti-apartheid activist and Black Consciousness Movement leader, Steve Bantu Biko, was commemorated at his birthplace in King William's Town in the Eastern Cape.
The Steve Biko Centre in the township of Ginsberg, hosted a dialogue titled, What Does Steve Biko Mean To Me.
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Police investigate shooting at Sobukwe funeral
The Graaff-Reinet police are investigating the illegal discharge of a firearm over the weekend during Mama Zondeni Sobukwe’s funeral.
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Khaya Biko - Steve Biko's brother
Interview with Steve Biko's brother at Ginsburg township, King Williams Town.
40th anniversary of the death of Steve Biko
The Steve Biko Centre in King William's Town is dedicated to the late anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, it boast exhibitions and the history of the man. But it is one of the cornerstones of a number of other developmental projects especially for the betterment of the youth and the community at large. As we mark the 40th Anniversary of the death of Steve Biko -- let us find out more about his legacy from our reporter Busi Jemsana and she is with Bokang Pooe, senior programme manager at Steve Biko Centre.
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From Panjila House to Steve Biko Centre
King Williams Town schools hosted a sporting event to honour Biko
It will be 40 years tomorrow (12/09/2017) since Steve Biko died.
A full calendar of events has been planned at various venues throughout the country this month (September) to celebrate Biko's legacy.
King Williams Town in the Eastern Cape has hosted a sporting event in his name, much to the delight of scholars from the area.
Over 30 schools took part.
The Steve Biko Foundation believes sport is one of the best tools to encourage unity.
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Steve Biko ‘was a down to earth person': Nontsikelelo Biko
Ginsberg, Eastern Cape, 21 March 2017 - Steve Biko's widow said the memorial at his gravesite would revive interest in learning about his ideals.
Steve Biko - a visit to his house, grave-site and museum
Before my Surfing comp at East London,
My dad took me to see Steve Biko's House, Gravesite and Centre at Ginsberg Township, King Williamstown.
My Dad grew up during Apartheid, and cycled past the Walmer Police Station in Port Elizabeth where Steve Biko was held in September 1977 on his way to school.
My dad says Steve Biko was a Pioneer of the anti-apartheid movement and when my dad was young, people of colour could not use the beaches, therefore they could not surf!
Thank you Steve Biko and everyone else who fought apartheid, as today, most of my friends would not be able to surf with me.
My Dad says if Steve Biko would have lived he would have been as influential, or more so than Nelson Mandela.
I love the film Cry Freedom. Try and watch it if you can.
Let us not Forget Apartheid.
Masihambe Biko: The Journey to Legacy
In commemoration of Steve Biko, The Steve Biko Centre (in Ginsberg) hosted The Journey To Legacy.
12 September 2015 also marks the 38th anniversary of Steve Biko's death in detention.
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Steve Biko, in full Bantu Stephen Biko (born December 18, 1946, King William’s Town, South Africa—died September 12, 1977, Pretoria), founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. His death from injuries suffered while in police custody made him an international martyr for South African black nationalism.
After being expelled from high school for political activism, Biko enrolled in and graduated (1966) from St. Francis College, a liberal boarding school in Natal, and then entered the University of Natal Medical School. There he became involved in the multiracial National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), a moderate organization that had long espoused the rights of blacks. He soon grew disenchanted with NUSAS, believing that, instead of simply allowing blacks to participate in white South African society, the society itself needed to be restructured around the culture of the black majority. In 1968 he cofounded the all-black South African Students’ Organization (SASO), and he became its first president the following year. SASO was based on the philosophy of black consciousness, which encouraged blacks to recognize their inherent dignity and self-worth. In the 1970s the Black Consciousness Movement spread from university campuses into urban black communities throughout South Africa. In 1972 Biko was one of the founders of the Black People’s Convention, an umbrella organization of black consciousness groups.
Biko drew official censure in 1973, when he and other SASO members were banned; their associations, movements, and public statements were thereby restricted. He then operated covertly, establishing the Zimele Trust Fund in 1975 to help political prisoners and their families. He was arrested four times over the next two years and was held without trial for months at a time. On August 18, 1977, he and a fellow activist were seized at a roadblock and jailed in Port Elizabeth. Biko was found naked and shackled outside a hospital in Pretoria, 740 miles (1,190 km) away, on September 11 and died the next day of a massive brain hemorrhage.
Police initially denied any maltreatment of Biko; it was determined later that he had probably been severely beaten while in custody, but the officers involved were cleared of wrongdoing. In 1997 five former police officers confessed to having killed Biko and applied for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (a body convened to review atrocities committed during the apartheid years); amnesty was denied in 1999. Donald Woods, a South African journalist, depicts his friendship with Biko in Biko (1977; 3rd rev. ed., 1991), and their relationship is portrayed in the film Cry Freedom (1987).
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40th Anniversary of Steve Biko - Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre , 12 September 2017
President Jacob Zuma visit Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre in Pretoria and talks about the liberation struggle hero Mr Stephen Bantu Biko, as part of commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the passing of the Black Consciousness Movement leader.
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