No perpetrators have ever been brought to justice after 1977 death-in-detention of renowned anti-apartheid leader, Steve Biko. A man reads about Steve Biko in the local Sowetan newspaper in ...

Two ex cops accused of killing South African anti apartheid hero Steve Biko will today controversially demand government money to protest their innocence. The two elderly men want legal aid as the ...

Two hospital floors housing critical services at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital (SBAH) in Pretoria were evacuated over the weekend so work could be carried out on failing electrical systems. The ...

Painful emotions will be stirred again when a re-opened inquest examines evidence of how Steve Biko died at the hands of apartheid policemen in September 1977 – and his youngest son, who never knew ...

In tonight's edition: a South African court has reopened an inquest into the death of anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko, 48 years after he died of brain injuries in police custody. Also, South Sudan's ...

Johannesburg — South African activist and anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko died almost five decades ago at the age of 30 in police custody. Family members and others who saw his body that day said he ...

An inquest into the death of South African anti apartheid legend Steve Biko was dramatically re-opened - exactly 48 years after his death. Biko, inspired by then jailed iconic leader Nelson Mandela, ...

Argus / SOWETAN/THE SOWETAN/AFP via Gett JOHANNESBURG, South Africa— “September ’77, Port Elizabeth weather fine. It was business as usual, in police room 619,” go the opening lines of singer Peter ...

Biko died on 12 September 1977 after being tortured by Special Branch police. In the build-up to this year's commemoration, the NPA moved to reopen an inquest into the circumstances surrounding his ...

Sept. 12 (UPI) --The South African government is opening an inquest of the death of South African activist Steve Biko in 1977. Friday is the 48th anniversary of Biko's death in police custody at age ...

Steve Biko formed the Black Consciousness Movement as a student in apartheid South Africa - and became a hero in the struggle for freedom A son of prominent South African anti-apartheid activist Steve ...

South Africa is to reopen an inquest into the death of anti-apartheid figure Steve Biko, who died in police custody. It will officially be registered in court on the anniversary of Biko's death, the ...