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Biko saw an opportunity to change the status quo in South Africa and to put an end to apartheid

the first thing he did was give the Black community a sense of self and pride in who they were               ↳ he did this by creating a community centre and a clinic for Blacks as a place for safety, care and a chance to learn about Black heritage

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used speeches as a way to connect with large groups of Black people

Biko's speeches were a powerful way to get his message of equality and the end of apartheid across

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Stephen Biko’s message of equality continued long after his death    ↳ and eventually brought an end to apartheid in the early 1990’s

his ideas inspired the people of South Africa to stand up and end apartheid with the election of Nelson Mandela

Biko left behind a legacy of bravery and change for all people of South Africa.

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an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa

founder of the Black Consciousness Movement(the BCM was an influential student movement in the 1970s in Apartheid South Africa)

co-founded the Black People's Convention in 1972(an umbrella organization of the BCM)

was expelled from high school for his activism and got arrested many times for his anti-apartheid work                   ↳ Steve Biko died (09/12/1977)from injuries that he suffered while in police custody

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worked towards creating a South Africa of equality and one free of apartheid

even though he died his ideas and hopes for South Africa lived on and apartheid came to an end in the 1990s

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"It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die"
- Steve Biko

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apartheid and police brutality

the policy of apartheid lasted from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s

Blacks were forced to live in slums and squalor with low paying jobs

police brutality was used to maintain the policy of apartheid   ↳ included the   burnings of entire Black townships, arrests on false charges and beatings, as the one that killed Steve Biko

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the legacy of Bantu Stephen Biko was one of bravery and compassion

he stood up against the forces that were trying to break down everything he stood for

Even though Biko was threatened by the white police during his time as a leader of the protest against apartheid, he did not give up on his dreams and his message of equality in South Africa.

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“Being black is not a matter of pigmentation – being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. ”

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“Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.”

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“I’m going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I’m not going to be what you want me to be.”

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“The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

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Amy Biehl and Steve Biko were both anti-apartheid activists. Furthermore,
Amy Biehl, a white woman,  was killed by a mob of young black men. And Steve Biko, a black man, was killed by white police officers. Both of them had the intention to make a difference, and they did. Because their ideas lived on even after their death.

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- south african journalist and anti-apartheid activist
- born on december 15th 1933 and died on august 19th 2001 of cancer
- he initially studied law, but switched from legal studies to journalism and did then change his opinion of the apartheidssystem as a young student
- after changing his opinion he was no longer supporting the apartheidssystem, but througout his friendship to steve biko he became an advocate and activist for the South African anti-apartheid movement

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- editor of Daily Dispatch
- after Steve Bikos death he continued his campaign against apartheid in london
- after Steve Bikos death he went to the murgue with bikos wife  and  photographed Biko's battered body to later publish those in his book and expose the cover-up of the cause of Biko´s death

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- he was arrested after an uprising broke out in Soweto in 1976
-  placed under a five-year ban
- he was stripped of his editorship, and was not allowed to speak publicly, write, travel or even work for the duration of his ban
- over the next year, he was subjected to increasing harassment
- he decided to flee South Africa and arived in London
-  returned to South Africa in 1994 to support the fundraising efforts for the ANC election fund

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- the daily dispatch was very critical of the South African Government and the emerging Black Consciousness Movement under the leadership of Steve Biko
- after being berated for writing misleading stories, Woods was challenged to meet Steve Biko
- The two men became friends, leading the Security Police to monitor Woods's movements
- Woods continued to provide political support to Biko, both through writing editorials in his newspaper and controversially hiring black journalists to the Daily Dispatch
- on 9 September 1997, on the twentieth anniversary of the death of Steve Biko, Woods was present in East London when a statue of Biko was unveiled by Nelson Mandela and the bridge across the Buffalo River was renamed the "Biko Bridge"

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- he toured the United States campaigning for sanctions against apartheid and internationally for economic and diplomatic pressure to be exerted against the apartheid state
- he wrote seven books on South Africa and became the first private citizen invited to adress the United NAtions Security Council in 1978

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"You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can’t care anyway."

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"When I left South Africa, I arrogantly predicted that within seven years, apartheid would be gone. It has taken a bit longer than that."

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well structured and detailed padlet, I really enjoyed the quotes and that you included their legacies

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Very well structured Padlet with many important information I didn’t know about. Everything is easy to understand and it’s easy to find the most important aspects quickly