apartheid – Manchester Historian

Xan Atkins gives a potted history of the political events and key figures leading up to and during the system of racial segregation in South Africa between 1948 and 1994.

Born in 1946, Steve Biko was a black anti-apartheid campaigner who died in police custody in 1977. Biko established himself as a student leader in the 1960’s. His belief in the need for black South Africans to organise and liberate themselves free from liberal white influence led him to establish the Black Consciousness Movement in Continue Reading