Today we remember Streve Bantu Biko, founder of the Black Conscious Movement, who died 42 years ago under Apartheid government. On August 18, 1977 Biko and his colleague and comrade, Peter Cyril Jones were arrested at a roadblock after they had travelled to Cape Town to lend their weight in an effort to get all political organisations fighting for liberation to agree on a broader program of co-operation. They were tortured severely and Biko sustained a massive brain haemorrhage. On the 11th of September, Biko was transported to Pretoria central #prison, a twelve-hour journey, naked in the back of a police van without a medical escort. Biko died the next day, on the 12th of September 1977, an eventuality he never feared, hence his infamous quote: "It is better to die for an idea that will live than to live for an idea that will die." Want to know more about his life and legacy as a freedom fighter, watch the movie 'Cry Freedom' with Denzel Washington. #backpackingafrica #eastern_cape #elundinivibes #apartheid #xhosa #dontforget #freedomfighter #stevebiko #historysa #southafricatourism #hogsbacksa #loveeasterncape #travelafrica #satsa_official #meetsouthafrica #instatravel (at Hogsback, Eastern Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2UO1Pcp-dB/?igshid=nb85bf206lqj
