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Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He later dies from injuries sustained during this arrest, bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
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Steve Biko
South African anti-apartheid activist (1946–1977)
Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ideas…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Place in Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Apartheid
South African system of racial segregation
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