![]() ![]() Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself It wasn’t until Biko was laying unconscious, that the doctors suggested that he be transported to Pretoria for On August 18, 1977, Biko was seized by the police and detained under section 6 of the Terrorism Act.īiko was held in prison for twenty-four days were he was interrogated, starved, and brutally beaten. ![]() During this period Biko was often harassed, arrested, and detained by the South African Police. To more than one person a timebut it did not stop his commitment to activism.įor the next four years, he continued to spread his message at gatherings and with his underground publicationĬalled "Frank Talk". Involved in the daily struggle that faced Blacks, he decided to quit medical school.īiko’s political activities caused him banned by government in 1973. ![]() He questioned the apartheid system and the conditions that his people were forced He died due to brain lesion caused by the “application of force to the head”. ![]()
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