Steven Bantu Biko was born December 19, 1946 in Kingwilliamstown, a small town 30 miles inland from the Indian Ocean. He was

Donald Woods, a white editor of the London Daily Dispatch described Biko as “one of the main hopes for a peaceful solution to the racial crisis in South Africa,” and “the single most important black leader of all” (Burns). After participating in the 1976 Soweto protests, where police ruthlessly killed 600 innocent black students, Biko began to get the majority of his support from the student population. With Biko’s involvement in so many civil activities, he was often a target of the “system”, (Websters, Apartheid) being “frequently harassed, detained and charged” (Websters, Steven) under South Africa’s “notorious security legislation” (Burns). Though in constant danger, Biko was said to “frequently reassure those who had expressed concern for him”, always entrusting his safety in his large following of "angry black youths” (Burns). Then one cloudy day, August 18, 1977, Biko and his comrade, Peter Cyril Jones, were arrested on “suspicion of fomenting unrest among blacks in the Port Elizabeth area, and of drafting documents urging violence and arson by blacks seeking to overthrow apartheid” (Burns). He was detained under a section of the Terrorism Act and was provided indefinite detention without trial (Websters Apartheid). Biko as held in prison at Port Elizabeth, and remained there for 16 days. During his time there, he was interrogated numerous times, and often beaten to get things out of him (Kgokong). On September 5, Biko began to refuse any food or water South African officials offered him. He was put in a hospital until white officials decided to transfer him to a hospital in Pretoria, 800 miles northeast (Kgokong). Officials said that

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