Steve Biko: The African Revolutionary, Why was he Killed?

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 23. 06. 2022
  • On September 12, 1977, the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa was dealt a heavy blow due to the death of Bantu Steve Biko, a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s until his death in police detention in 1977.
    Biko was one of the most prominent leaders in the anti-apartheid struggle and in some quarters he was seen as “the most important black South African leader of this generation.” So important, in fact, that the Apartheid Government was terrified of him.
    **************************************************************************
    Sources:
    Steve Biko: I WRITE WHAT I LIKE
    www.britannica.com/biography/...
    www.thoughtco.com/stephen-ban...
    www.sahistory.org.za/people/s...
    daily.jstor.org/the-death-of-...
    blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2...
    www.history.com/this-day-in-h...
    artsandculture.google.com/sto...
    www.sbf.org.za/home/steve-biko/
    ***************************************************************************
    Music:
    Arid Foothills - The Dark Contenent by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
    Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
    Artist: incompetech.com/
    Artifact - The Dark Contenent by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
    Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
    Artist: incompetech.com/
    Meditation Impromptu 03 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
    Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
    Artist: incompetech.com/
    John Stockton Slow Drag by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
    Source: chriszabriskie.com/uvp/
    Artist: chriszabriskie.com/
    Silent Partner: The Rain
    Allegro: Emit Fenn
    ***********************************************************************
    Feel free to reach out to us at africanbiographics[at]gmail.com
    #SteveBiko #apartheid #southafrica

Komentáře • 758

  • @marigoldbeam5475
    @marigoldbeam5475 Před rokem +136

    South Africa desperately needs another Steve Biko. A true hero of Africa, not just South Africa. He lives forever in our minds.

    • @poisonboxingfitness
      @poisonboxingfitness Před rokem +4

      What we need now, is to fight to free ourselves from chains or the cage of the liberator, liberators who's grred left the liberated stranded and trapped in poverty.

    • @thembi9645
      @thembi9645 Před rokem +6

      Not just SA but the whole of Africa coz all of it is captured

    • @marigoldbeam5475
      @marigoldbeam5475 Před rokem +2

      @@thembi9645 I don't find the whole of Africa to be captured, if you travel around the continent you might be surprised to see how freely many Africans think and live. South Africa is a tragedy by comparison, particularly because it seems to be a point of pride to South Africans to be as western as possible. I agree that Steve Biko, all over the world in fact, would be a wonderful thing.

    • @thembi9645
      @thembi9645 Před rokem +1

      @@marigoldbeam5475 Western as possible? Plz elaborate
      How should SA look like?
      We don’t walk freely in SA? What.....

    • @tuforu4
      @tuforu4 Před rokem +1

      @@thembi9645 no AMERICANS civil rights workers involved in AFRICA.

  • @trucklord3901
    @trucklord3901 Před rokem +23

    I’m a 30 year old Zulu Boy living in Australia, I am proudly South African and unapologetic about my Struggle and success. Shoutout to my fallen Hero’s that put their lives in danger for me to fly overseas 🙏🏼🇿🇦

    • @fightback397
      @fightback397 Před rokem +2

      Are you still around ?
      Why are you in Australia ?

    • @trucklord3901
      @trucklord3901 Před rokem +2

      @@fightback397 To steal from them too… if they can do it so can I😂

    • @sakhematshoba239
      @sakhematshoba239 Před 9 měsíci +1

      ​@@trucklord3901😂

  • @bosslady5464
    @bosslady5464 Před rokem +169

    I'm Namibian, my older brother was named Steve Biko, I also have a Brother called Robert Sobukwe. They were Both born in 1990, It is so nice to learn about the great Bantu Biko.

    • @ChrizzeyChreyBeatoli
      @ChrizzeyChreyBeatoli Před rokem +6

      I wish it was taught throughout the entire continent, starting with SA itself...

    • @poisonboxingfitness
      @poisonboxingfitness Před rokem +5

      Biko, Sobukwe and others died for us to be free but, we ended up in the cage of the liberator. Where's freedom?

    • @bosslady5464
      @bosslady5464 Před rokem +1

      @@poisonboxingfitness Letta Mbulu said, Not yet Uhuru .

    • @bambo-bandileqongqo3625
      @bambo-bandileqongqo3625 Před rokem +1

      Izwelethu !!!! I Afrika ( Afrika is our Country )

    • @bambo-bandileqongqo3625
      @bambo-bandileqongqo3625 Před rokem

      I would like to correspond with you. thete a lot that i want to discuss with you

  • @lesliemasuku7558
    @lesliemasuku7558 Před rokem +31

    ...The unforgettable painful history of black Southafricas, long live the spirit of Bantu Steve Biko...

  • @chriscam686
    @chriscam686 Před rokem +51

    Steve was a true warrior and hero to black peoples in South Africa and globally. Our Rastafarian community in Jamaica has always been a constant in raising jawareness and support from afar and getting ones to overstand the importance of black consciousness and black unity globally. Steve lives on through US 🇿🇦

    • @PyromancerRift
      @PyromancerRift Před 9 měsíci

      How's doing south africa and jamaica ? Good ? People live good life ? With comfort ? You guys are CLOWNS.

    • @pastormakumbila5229
      @pastormakumbila5229 Před 9 měsíci +2

      Youth must stand up and form united Youth organization to emancipate themselves and prepare themselves in education and politics so they can rule the country in the future and eradicate crime corruption and create jobs and townianize rural areas to restore the Identity dignity and integrity of black child

    • @pastormakumbila5229
      @pastormakumbila5229 Před 9 měsíci

      Bike was not for himself but for black child identity integrity and dignity

    • @pastormakumbila5229
      @pastormakumbila5229 Před 9 měsíci

      We have prayed who will go for us in 2024

  • @musamusashi
    @musamusashi Před rokem +21

    Biko, one of the greatest freedom fighters ever.
    A hero, a martyr.
    Eternal love and respect from Kenya.

  • @nickyfaddel8672
    @nickyfaddel8672 Před rokem +17

    STEVE BIKO COULD NOT BE BOUGHT OUT!,,,

  • @graceagyeiwaah6065
    @graceagyeiwaah6065 Před rokem +186

    I consider Brother Biko the most influential South African whose work contributed immensely to the liberation of South Africa. His Black Consciousness concept influenced me shaped me and made me the man I am today. His death was the single most painful event in my life He died a year after I completed secondary school in Ghana His biography must be read and taught in every African secondary school. He was a giant in the same category as Dr Kwame Nkrumah

    • @seripa15
      @seripa15 Před rokem

      Interesting Grace. How did BC shaped you?

    • @anngore3842
      @anngore3842 Před rokem

      @@seripa15 You've got to be blind not to comprehend it. It's nobody's job to spoon feed you. You sound like a troll.

    • @jahifaraji
      @jahifaraji Před rokem +3

      We must continue to raise the great Steven biko's name

    • @poisonboxingfitness
      @poisonboxingfitness Před rokem +5

      Only on Sundays black people would deny all the freedom fighters contributions and say, Jesus is the one who died for them. Black consciousness was replaced with unconscious, black selfiness and greed, now that you're free, the liberator takes everything to leave like a European while the rest of the Animals in the farm still leave like by before.

    • @lwandolumko1739
      @lwandolumko1739 Před rokem

      9
      9

  • @MotebangMokoena
    @MotebangMokoena Před rokem +58

    This might be a tough ask as most records of the man have been destroyed. But if possible, please Put together a Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe video.

  • @bronwynevans150
    @bronwynevans150 Před rokem +50

    I was hugely impacted by the murder of Steve Bantu Biko. I was a protected, white girl in Grade 11 when he died. I managed to get hold of the biography of Biko by Donald Woods. The movie about Biko is based on this book to quite an extent, as far as I recall (many years since I watched it) The book was banned in this country at that time. I remember hiding the book in case someone reported me to the police (can you believe it!!) I do wonder where we would have been today, if Biko had become president. I have read 'I write what I like" and it remains on my bookshelf. I take small comfort in thinking how he would have enjoyed seeing the tremendous mix of children in our schools, today; the confidence and freedom that children are able to experience now (I teach in an urban school). He will always be a much admired, very human, historical figure.

    • @MercurialRed9
      @MercurialRed9 Před rokem +3

      ❤️

    • @poisonboxingfitness
      @poisonboxingfitness Před rokem

      He hoped that, black would be conscious some day but, the contrary has happened, after the so-called freedom, the liberator took his kids to the white man's schools, the liberator goes to the white man's hospital and the liberator loots everything to afford him the life led by the previous oppressor.
      Freedom can't free them all.

    • @petebondurant58
      @petebondurant58 Před rokem

      If Biko had become president...Suid Afrika would still have become the cesspool it is today.

    • @nondwenyembezi7017
      @nondwenyembezi7017 Před rokem +3

      ❤❤❤

    • @Cya_De_Saint
      @Cya_De_Saint Před 10 měsíci

      @@petebondurant58 Yes "Suid Africa would still have become the cesspool it is today" you know why? It is only you and your race that has been affected by post apartheid, Apartheid laws built South Africa for white people only, since it's no longer in power you think South Africa has fallen. Thts why
      2024, just hope people don't vote for EFF because if they do, tables will turn....the things white people did to blacks will happen to them( not violence)
      No more high paying jobs for you
      No more white quiet suburbs
      I'll be your neighbor in that estate while working as a security guard at shoprite.

  • @sharimamjohnson9066
    @sharimamjohnson9066 Před rokem +45

    No one can tell our story better than us!

  • @williamnunda6085
    @williamnunda6085 Před rokem +75

    Thank you tatenda for this,I knew so little of Steve Biko,except the brutal killing,I understand now that some birds cannot be caged,RIP Steve Biko,an inspiration to the African Hope

  • @davidsaul67
    @davidsaul67 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Biko ,we Tanzanians we can not forget your Africans struggle against brutality regime of whites in South Africa,Rest in power & May God embrace your family,I can not say goodbyee but thank u for spirit of African dignity🙏,by David Kairanya Saul from Serengeti Tanzania 🇹🇿

  • @sandywilliams6439
    @sandywilliams6439 Před rokem +37

    I am not South African but I have never forgotten the Great Steve Biko may he sleep in peace

  • @kihuirimu6292
    @kihuirimu6292 Před rokem +48

    Very good work. This is patriotism in its highest expression. Steve Biko remains a hero to millions across Africa wherever the struggle for African consciousness goes on.

    • @poisonboxingfitness
      @poisonboxingfitness Před rokem +3

      Until the leaving heroes turned villains, thieves of the day and Europeans in a black skin

  • @user-hs2wu7ex9z
    @user-hs2wu7ex9z Před rokem +38

    A friend of Africa here. Thank you for this well-researched and well-informed video about Steve Biko.

  • @awadarboe658
    @awadarboe658 Před rokem +18

    R I P Father Bantu Biko, but we’ll always and forever be your copy against any political, racial and social injustice as your lessons reached every corner in this EARTH . Thanks for time and support for this video.

  • @afrakanaswahilitv5520
    @afrakanaswahilitv5520 Před rokem +8

    Nampeza na kumhamu Bantu Steve Biko. Ni mwanamajumui shupavu wa Afrika. Sisi Waafrika wote, tumuenzi Steve Biko nyakati zote katika maisha yetu kila uchao.

  • @hlawulanisibisi2634
    @hlawulanisibisi2634 Před rokem +405

    Considering that I'm a 27-year-old South African and the only thing I have achieved is a university degree, while Biko achieved so much at 30 years old. it makes me think what exactly im i doing with my life

    • @lekis5975
      @lekis5975 Před rokem +81

      @Hluwalani Sibisi That generation had prodigious guts , energy and belief! That said, don't let their story put you off, instead let it be a source of inspiration.

    • @ashleymukarali4852
      @ashleymukarali4852 Před rokem +15

      GET LAND REFORM FOR YOUR PEOPLE

    • @mukeloncube410
      @mukeloncube410 Před rokem +26

      What’s worse is that, he started at a young Age, at the age of 20 Steve Biko was already a leader.

    • @anthonymcken6050
      @anthonymcken6050 Před rokem +25

      As Salman Rushdi recently said this generation is a generation of cowards.

    • @ashleymukarali4852
      @ashleymukarali4852 Před rokem +4

      @@anthonymcken6050 very true

  • @afrikaiswoke5667
    @afrikaiswoke5667 Před rokem +23

    Another classic...Thank you...Steve Biko's 'I Write What I Like' changed my life

  • @khotsoratau9965
    @khotsoratau9965 Před rokem +25

    🙌🙌🙌🙌 Love from South Africa....What a wonderful bio of one of my favorite Leaders.....Africa shall rise and we shall be liberated

  • @snaggamwangi4809
    @snaggamwangi4809 Před rokem +12

    Steve Biko started his revolutionary ambitions while in high school. So inspiring.

  • @ruthsherman2507
    @ruthsherman2507 Před rokem +81

    Steve Biko's writings reached me here in America some years ago and I found him to be very intelligent and inspiring. His essay ...I Write What I Like ...is one of my favorite. He spoke eloquently about conditions in S. Africa. And his articles under Frank Talk were just as eloquent.
    And finally, of course, I had to read of the horrible way in which they murdered him...the horror is inexplicable.
    Thank you for sharing.
    💁🌹🙋💯

    • @mogomotsi6595
      @mogomotsi6595 Před rokem +2

      You must also read his book "Black man you are on your own

    • @poisonboxingfitness
      @poisonboxingfitness Před rokem +7

      He died a brutal but, I think fighting and dying for black people is a waist of life. This confused race now, leaves in the cage, still a cage but, the cage of the liberator and have abandoned the struggle, when the liberators are the oppressor of the day and when the heroes turn villains the confused race don't know how to fight and who to be fighting right now.

    • @hewantssomespecialtreatmen7163
      @hewantssomespecialtreatmen7163 Před rokem

      @@poisonboxingfitness who do you think you are, calling black people confused race! Don't fool yourself!

    • @vuyophandle1903
      @vuyophandle1903 Před rokem

      @@poisonboxingfitness black people in their overwhelming majority are a confused and lost people. To a certain extent, it is nothing of their own doing. But I hold a believe that somewhere along the line, we had our leaders that sold us out. Think of Blaise Compare that had Sankara killed. Right now the African continent is nothing more than a waste land that's rich in resources. African leaders aren't thinking that we our people need to be liberated - especially financially. Look at how China and the middle east developed. Africa isn't developing at all. So it is saddening that as a people and as a race, we are like this today despite the efforts of great people like Biko.
      We are a lost people. We are living but we aren't living. We aren't true to who we are. We are hotspotted way of living from other people and it's not working for us.

    • @babingtonsoji1944
      @babingtonsoji1944 Před rokem +1

      The truth finally saw the light of the day. Thank you for your wonderful contribution.

  • @michahtaylor1182
    @michahtaylor1182 Před rokem +100

    From a child I've been hearing about this man as a freedom fighter and his life has shown the spirit he had.... R.I.P. (Rise In Power) my brother, and thank you for putting together a documentary that is valuable for all melanated people esp. the younger one's as being apart of an educational curriculum on a historical basis.... We live!

  • @Vince-I-Am
    @Vince-I-Am Před rokem +28

    Thank you for this as finally a true revolutionary who wanted Black Consciousness globally.
    REST IN POWER BANTU STEVE BIKO.

  • @ladifmefire2943
    @ladifmefire2943 Před rokem +5

    Bantu people are the most oppressed in the world . Only our unity will strengthen us .wherever you are fight oppression with every single tool you can reach and never fear to die fighting for justice .

  • @n.m6249
    @n.m6249 Před rokem +111

    The history of our heroes must be told, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Ignore those who tell you to forget your history

    • @sunchildofsirius2462
      @sunchildofsirius2462 Před rokem

      just checking again : your hero was a white billionaire genocidal dictator who stole from africans .

    • @liammeharry
      @liammeharry Před rokem +1

      Who's telling you to forget your history?

    • @philipbanda6637
      @philipbanda6637 Před rokem +8

      @@liammeharry European settlers (Dutch/ british) always twist African history

    • @poisonboxingfitness
      @poisonboxingfitness Před rokem

      Our history becomes important, only when the scavengers wants to be re-elected and after re-election, the Jewish history takes over on every Sunday of a black man and confusion continues.
      Cry my beloved confused race

    • @hellonomasonto
      @hellonomasonto Před rokem

      @@poisonboxingfitness You are full of vitriol (and a lot of time), aren't you. What's going on in your life? I'm recommending a book by Oprah Winfrey and a psychiatrist called 'What happened to you '.

  • @ulrikemorgan1195
    @ulrikemorgan1195 Před rokem +7

    We will forever remember and love you Steve Biko the world needs to know if everyone is more like you Steve Biko we would be all be in a better place thank u Steve Biko and all the others for letting us see the truth we love you Steven Biko you are a hero 🇿🇦

  • @ewalker1057
    @ewalker1057 Před rokem +37

    The most powerful tool of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko

  • @spho2442
    @spho2442 Před rokem +2

    The Education of South Africa is what it is today because of Steve Bantu Biko!. he will always be every youths favourite rolemodel✊✊.

  • @officielEP
    @officielEP Před rokem +11

    I wish Africans will learn from their past. You're doing an excellent job! Thank you for spreading the knowledge

  • @n.m6249
    @n.m6249 Před rokem +49

    He reminds me of Malcolm X, Fidel Castro, Mohammed Ali, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Kwame Nkrumah RIP LEGENDS

    • @sunchildofsirius2462
      @sunchildofsirius2462 Před rokem +6

      what are you putting fidel castro in the same sentence as Steve Biko and Malcolm X?

    • @armana1
      @armana1 Před rokem +1

      Yep,steve biko absolutely fits into that category of legendary revolutionaries

    • @sunchildofsirius2462
      @sunchildofsirius2462 Před rokem

      @@armana1 if you directed your reply to me , i suggest you do a lot more research on fidel castro- who was a disgusting racist. he was america 's man . he used his army whilst turning Cuba which was mostly black into a communist plantation to help his allies- the soviet union, israel and america to steal at gun point and with landmines the gold and oil from angola.
      he was said to be a billionaire when black people in cuba are still now forced to work for meagre (slave ) wages . you fell for the stage management of mandela and his white communist comrades hugging a despicable dictator who hated black people .
      please do more research.

    • @amehka5416
      @amehka5416 Před rokem

      @@sunchildofsirius2462 🤣

    • @sunchildofsirius2462
      @sunchildofsirius2462 Před rokem

      @@amehka5416 what's funny ? is there something wrong with you ?is a stupid emoji thingy your sole contribution to this thread?
      do you think steve biko did not urge education and knowledge as a tool against the oppressor , the mind emptied of all content ? is your mind emptied of all content ? so why are acting like a aliterate fool ?

  • @MathewsLukundoSinyangwe-05

    Long live the legacy of this SON of Africa

  • @rhandzananifargo7073
    @rhandzananifargo7073 Před rokem +46

    Finally a South African hero!

  • @tsheponcamane2018
    @tsheponcamane2018 Před rokem +18

    Beautiful work on this one, Biko was the ultimate leader

    • @AfricanBiographics
      @AfricanBiographics  Před rokem +2

      Thanks Tshepo

    • @johndoeiii9767
      @johndoeiii9767 Před rokem +2

      @@AfricanBiographics
      Please do a video on Imam Abdullah Haron too!
      He (Imam Abdullah Haron) was a (growing and far-reaching) threat to the Apartheid regime.
      Steve Biko, like Imam Abdullah Haron, was tortured and interrogated while detained... He too, was murdered whilst in police captivity.
      Please do consider doing a tribute to him💔And thank you for this great video❤️
      Salaam to you and your family brother🤝
      _"Cape Malay" / "Cape Coloured"_
      from Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦
      #TheCapeOfStorms 🌊
      #TheCapeColony ⛓️
      #TheMotherCity 🇿🇦
      #TheCapeFlats 🏚️

  • @Freedom_4_Assange
    @Freedom_4_Assange Před rokem +22

    Thank you for keeping the history of postcolonial thought alive

  • @andileism
    @andileism Před rokem +16

    I wonder why Steve Biko was never associated with the ANC. I'm sure he knew that they will sell out ''Abantsundu'' with their rampant corruption. I think his vision was for us to believe in ourselves to be farmers, engineers and so on. The man is still relevant today. After reading I write what I like more than 10 years ago, and I need to reread it. Thanks @African Biographic

    • @farananimadzhie3268
      @farananimadzhie3268 Před rokem +1

      Biko didn't believe in non multi racial party he believed white people can't be both problem and solutions of this country.

  • @raonyadundo4172
    @raonyadundo4172 Před rokem +17

    Steve Bantu Biko lives forever in our hearts. I hate the perpetrators of apartheid, echo to BCM for keeping the war/struggle alive to the end.

    • @mondemagenu9185
      @mondemagenu9185 Před rokem

      I think he didn't die in a prison hospital. He died in a police van naked on the way to Pretoria. He had already been severely injured by the torture.

  • @vuyophandle1903
    @vuyophandle1903 Před rokem +15

    Beautiful video. We still remember Biko. His work and what he believed in is still relevant to this day, to all Africans across the continent. May Biko's soul continue to rest in power. My birthday comes a day after his. He is always in my mind. Power to Biko.

  • @gabougoddard1379
    @gabougoddard1379 Před rokem +30

    He was a great man. May his soul rest in perfect peace.

    • @bonganikhumalo5410
      @bonganikhumalo5410 Před rokem

      those white security police including de wet may they rot in hell,

  • @keithtait7049
    @keithtait7049 Před rokem +21

    Please do an episode on Robert Sobukwe

  • @vuyN77
    @vuyN77 Před rokem +9

    Killed for telling oppressed black people to work on themselves and to love who they are!!! The weak are really threatened by anything!!!

  • @nourishbmercy2148
    @nourishbmercy2148 Před rokem +14

    No peace for the wicked!
    Whatever you sow; you shall reap.
    Oh Lord we know your words will not return void to you.
    Thanks for this wonderful piece.
    Thanks Mr. Steve Biko

  • @jahifaraji
    @jahifaraji Před rokem +35

    it's so ridiculous to see how much we have been offended globally by the same people..they are not going to change..we must empower ourselves to impose the necessary changes..we in the diaspora must make small and large investments with our people in the continent....

    • @thandosiza3349
      @thandosiza3349 Před rokem +4

      That’s exactly what we need to do.

    • @amehka5416
      @amehka5416 Před rokem

      Exactly which people in the diasporas?

  • @criessmiles3620
    @criessmiles3620 Před rokem +8

    Thank you Broda
    Cheers from west Africa
    🦅

  • @marcrubin8844
    @marcrubin8844 Před rokem +17

    Such an informative documentary. Biko(RIP) started a libération movement not only in his homeland but also in the world's oppressed people.

  • @skeptikalmyndz8157
    @skeptikalmyndz8157 Před dnem

    Long Live Steve Biko.
    One Love From Zambia

  • @Yathome00
    @Yathome00 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Thank you so much for this video. Steve Biko is a hero not just in Africa but around the world. May he rest in paradise 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @ElimanGibba
    @ElimanGibba Před rokem +18

    Informative ,Educational & Supremely Enlightening ! Much Respects.

  • @samkelojordan3832
    @samkelojordan3832 Před rokem +13

    Good video. REALLY appreciate your efforts in properly pronouncing POQO 👊🏾🙏🏾👌🏾👏🏾☺️

  • @aykay9328
    @aykay9328 Před rokem +3

    We will nevet forget you Steve Biko, Robert Sobukwe,Sabelo Pamla and Chris Hani, our leaders who died before realization of the freedom they died fighting for Thank you children of soil, of the EC,of South africa.You are soley missed.

  • @mukeloncube410
    @mukeloncube410 Před rokem +13

    If Steve Biko was still Alive, our Country would be a whole lot better then it is right now.

    • @thembafakude6499
      @thembafakude6499 Před rokem +3

      Yes Ncube I pray that the mighty Creator to destroy all sellouts from within and amongst us

    • @kfreckle5453
      @kfreckle5453 Před rokem

      There is no guarantee SA would have better if he was alive. Remember that many great leaders fail in their bid to get goals accomplished due to the corruption that surround them and the fight they face from people who undermine them

  • @nathanngumi8467
    @nathanngumi8467 Před rokem +16

    Biko was a hero of the struggle, it was unfortunate that justice was never done. The vocational training institutes that he inspired were also targeted by the apartheid state because of the empowerment and self-reliance that these stood for.

    • @petebondurant58
      @petebondurant58 Před rokem

      The Apartheid state has been gone for thirty years, and Suid Afrika is even worse off than it was.

  • @1980tx
    @1980tx Před rokem +4

    He was very influential. I’m from Kenya and I know so many people named after him …

  • @skimanization
    @skimanization Před 10 měsíci +1

    I'm glad that I lived to meet him personally as a youth in 1976 in South Africa. I also like that I stumbled upon this video. Thanks for sharing. Aluta continua!!!

  • @wafikaskera7179
    @wafikaskera7179 Před rokem +91

    They killed Steve Biko and Chris Hani and now we are left with ramaphosa, Zuma and the ANC 🙄😔

    • @wandasig6
      @wandasig6 Před rokem +6

      Mft😭🤣

    • @marigoldbeam5475
      @marigoldbeam5475 Před rokem +13

      And before that you had Mandela who was more like a movie star than a politician or freedom fighter. The europeans really know who take out in order to kill a movement.

    • @texcity2004
      @texcity2004 Před rokem +5

      U forgot Julius Malema ..A True Fighter

    • @kfreckle5453
      @kfreckle5453 Před rokem +4

      @@marigoldbeam5475 how was Mandela more like a movie star than a freedom fighter? A man who fought against the cruel system of apartheid and spent years in prison because he fought for equality is seen as a fake to you?

    • @marigoldbeam5475
      @marigoldbeam5475 Před rokem +10

      @@kfreckle5453 When someone becomes more famous for their associations with the glitterati and less for what they have achieved for their people, I call that person a movie star. Do you see the state of South Africa? The condition of South Africans, not the privileged white minority. SA now has the dubious distinction of being the most unequal society in the world, having overtaken Brazil. Quite a feat. It has astronomical rates of femicide and child abuse. The majority of the population lives in abject poverty in tin cans. Whilst the white minority has grown exponentially wealthy. I would say someone cut a poor deal for their people, whilst enjoying all of that camera coverage and adulation.

  • @HelderRoze
    @HelderRoze Před rokem +1

    A legend like Peter Gabriel always ends his concerts with the song Biko and that’s how I know about him. His story can NEVER be forgotten.

  • @pulanelitabe7562
    @pulanelitabe7562 Před rokem +4

    If this Man Steve Bantu Biko🌍🙏🙏🙏🙏…was still alive today i believe that we would far in life as Black people and aware of who we really are.. I'm saddened that our kids and Grand kids wont know about him because they are not taught black history in school...

    • @amehka5416
      @amehka5416 Před rokem +1

      Teach it to them yourselves and hopefully it will be passed down, don't expect your enemies to teach it.

    • @thembafakude6499
      @thembafakude6499 Před rokem +1

      Black history starts with you we must teach read and learn from it 🇿🇦🇿🇦

    • @blanke1815
      @blanke1815 Před 5 měsíci

      xD kinda all they teach in school where im from

  • @lutho7693
    @lutho7693 Před rokem +5

    He was a real Patriot 🇿🇦✊🏿🚩

  • @norrisbennett2153
    @norrisbennett2153 Před rokem +3

    Rest in peace my favorite Freedom Fighter.👊👊👊👊👊👊🤜🤛. More power from jamaica 🇯🇲

  • @hyltonswemmer4824
    @hyltonswemmer4824 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Steven Biko was a great man........an inspiration who did not deserve his demise.........

  • @jamesbiko586
    @jamesbiko586 Před rokem +2

    Am a Kenyan and am proud to be named after this great African leader.

  • @vincentmotonya2859
    @vincentmotonya2859 Před rokem +4

    All great African leaders that had the ability and intellectual ability to change the lives of Africans was killed by the enemy ,Rip Bhiko

  • @antr7493
    @antr7493 Před rokem +24

    Denzel Washington made a movie about him in the late 80s called "Cry Freedom". It was excellent.

    • @andrebanks5361
      @andrebanks5361 Před rokem +4

      I remember that movie and IMO, was one of Mr Washington's most profound roles along with Malcolm X... Should have won an Oscar for both roles.

    • @paultheking4632
      @paultheking4632 Před rokem +2

      True

    • @tvs9978
      @tvs9978 Před rokem

      Appropriation. An African actor should have played that role

    • @andrebanks5361
      @andrebanks5361 Před rokem

      @@tvs9978 no disrespect but please elaborate.

    • @tvs9978
      @tvs9978 Před rokem

      @@andrebanks5361 well black Americans complain when Africans /black Brits play their roles and say they're appropriating their roles e.g. They were pissed when Cynthia Erivo played H. Tubman, when David Oluwelo played MLK in Glory and when Lupita and Chikwu played black American slaves in 10 years a Slave because they felt they had not lived the black American experience. If so the reverse is true too. A black American should not play the roles of African figureheads because that is not their story/history /lived experience

  • @mcamara488
    @mcamara488 Před rokem +4

    Thank you very much for your time and hard work, very much appreciated and educational. Be blessed

  • @guzwa2334
    @guzwa2334 Před rokem +11

    Steve's political views were and are too much for most people to grasp and understand and practice.
    My country men's love for looting and violence would trash any type of political understanding.
    Pietermartizburg KZN South Africa 🌍

    • @sunchildofsirius2462
      @sunchildofsirius2462 Před rokem +2

      understand political engineering and manipulation before throwing people under the bus .

  • @globalafrican7447
    @globalafrican7447 Před rokem +6

    Thank you. Well put together.

  • @paulbiko1964
    @paulbiko1964 Před rokem +4

    Steve Biko, thank you for your sacrifice .

  • @manvmachable
    @manvmachable Před 4 měsíci

    All these years ive been reading european, American, russia, Chinese history. Turned to learn about africa and come across these awesome inspiring intelligent men like biko!

  • @Visiontech
    @Visiontech Před rokem

    One of the best videos of this entire series and one of the most compelling and that's saying a lot because your series/ channel is at the top! Thanks

  • @hellonomasonto
    @hellonomasonto Před rokem +1

    Very, very inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time. Thank you, Tatenda.

  • @pfunk1006
    @pfunk1006 Před rokem +15

    pan african american salutes you. rbg

    • @pfunk1006
      @pfunk1006 Před rokem +1

      @Relaty Vibe because you say so mwahahahaaaaaa. Georgia strong Africa Long

  • @abbasjina8041
    @abbasjina8041 Před rokem +7

    who was really behind the killing of Sobukwe Chris Hani and Steve Biko? I wonder what the 3 above would have said of the present Government of our Country.I was honoured to have met Steve Biko.

  • @haosesnadia6783
    @haosesnadia6783 Před 7 měsíci

    Thank you very much for this videos.much appreciated.enjoying them very much.job welldone on your side.very well narrated videos.

  • @papacheezie2838
    @papacheezie2838 Před rokem +1

    RIPOWERRR AND CONTUNE TRANSITIONING WELL INTO DA COSMOS LUV AND LIGHT BABA STEVE BIKO ONE.OF.AFRIKA GREAT POLITICAL AFRIKAN WARRIORS
    NUFF RESPECT 🙏 SHALOM FAMILY EXIDOS
    AMUN RA'
    MA'AT HOTEP
    ( TRUTH AND PEACE)
    ASE ' O ASE '
    EYE AM 👁 IN AGREEMENT
    ❤😢😢😮🎉

  • @mdu__Africa
    @mdu__Africa Před rokem +8

    Quality content sir. May you please make a video on Zimbabwe and what the future holds for it. I feel its relevant as elections are coming up next year

    • @tvs9978
      @tvs9978 Před rokem

      Is Mnangwagwa going to run for office?

  • @lindawilliams8715
    @lindawilliams8715 Před rokem +7

    The life of BANTU STEVEN BIKO was so profound that academy award winning actor DENZEL WASHINGTON portrayed him in the movie "Cry Freedom". Later Mr. Washington will bring to life on screen MALCOLM X. We wonder if both roles were selected by Mr. Washington because of the great similarities of their political journeys. Both Biko and Malcolm X wanted their people to liberate their minds so they could resist oppression by the white racist regime in South Africa and the United States.

  • @baljindersandhu1627
    @baljindersandhu1627 Před rokem +4

    Comrade Biko you still live in our hearts red salute

  • @leboblack
    @leboblack Před rokem +1

    Thank you, needed this

  • @yiannislanga5357
    @yiannislanga5357 Před 2 měsíci

    I must say sir, you have a very smooth narration voice. I could listen to it for hours

  • @primroseplantier450
    @primroseplantier450 Před rokem +1

    I always look forward to your posts ♥️

  • @mohamedgoldstone7915
    @mohamedgoldstone7915 Před rokem +3

    May God bless you Bantu S.B we love you 🤛❤️

  • @marvasampson3860
    @marvasampson3860 Před rokem +3

    May his soul rest in paradise from Jamaica 🇯🇲

  • @kamarifit
    @kamarifit Před rokem

    Thank you for making this

  • @waltervetri2476
    @waltervetri2476 Před rokem +2

    He was a very intelligent man and he could have started real democracy a long time ago, that is will he was perhaps eliminated. What grotesque, inhumane, behavior took away a great MAN. Of Africa. Vetri EC Komani 🙏🇿🇦🙏

  • @kashuwamwaka2441
    @kashuwamwaka2441 Před rokem +2

    Steve Biko is my hero I learnt about him in 1990s on our national television nbc from there I because so fascinated by this African icon played by American actor Denzel Washington then he was indeed a brave and fearless statesman I loved the way he responded to the regime of sa his saying " to me a good Boer is only dead Boer,,and this you call yourselves whites to me my shirt I'm wearing is white but you you are either pink or yellow" and when he hit back at the police officer telling him " you made a mistake of not tying my hands therefore I hit back" wow what a brave and fearless man to honour him I gave my nephew his name who' was born the same year in Africa we have many of his kind courageous and endurance to the journalist who " Steve Biko died for nothing" ooh NO he died for a good purpose Mandela and others were freed from prison and SA got it's independence at last I love my africaininess and my blackness God bless africa 🙏

  • @rafman016
    @rafman016 Před rokem

    Great video, I learnt lots from it - thank you!

  • @jimmymshali6661
    @jimmymshali6661 Před rokem +3

    RIP Biko the evils of apartheid killed you but your spirit is still with us viva Biko viva 💪

  • @ajitsuttatti
    @ajitsuttatti Před 10 měsíci

    A very inspiring video of an unsung hero of South Africa and Africa as a whole. Sorry to say, until watching this video...I knew only about Nelson Mandela as the hero for Apartheid. African people need to understand, realise and follow heroes like Steve Biko and come together as ONE.❤

  • @alieusanyang468
    @alieusanyang468 Před rokem +1

    I always like your intro.... Thanks for the great work and reminding us about our great ancestors

  • @vonbarnes2700
    @vonbarnes2700 Před rokem +4

    Great to see a new video love the knowledge

  • @user-bl7ep1hz7s
    @user-bl7ep1hz7s Před 7 měsíci

    Very well researched and full of important facts, good workmanship, Vincent Risimati

  • @johndoeiii9767
    @johndoeiii9767 Před rokem +9

    Please do a video on Imam Abdullah Haron too!
    He (Imam Abdullah Haron) was a (growing and far-reaching) threat to the Apartheid regime.
    Steve Biko, like Imam Abdullah Haron, was tortured and interrogated while detained... He too, was murdered whilst in police captivity.
    Please do consider doing a tribute to him💔
    And thank you for this great video❤️
    Salaam to you and your family brother🤝
    _"Cape Malay" / "Cape Coloured"_
    from Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦
    #TheCapeOfStorms 🌊 #TheCapeColony ⛓️
    #TheMotherCity 🇿🇦 #TheCapeFlats 🏚️

    • @thembi9645
      @thembi9645 Před rokem

      Please they should bcz the case is reopened

  • @chx4eva
    @chx4eva Před 28 dny

    I'm Nigerian. Big respect to Stephen Biko 👍🏽

  • @nomsantuli6023
    @nomsantuli6023 Před 4 měsíci

    Thank you for the video didn't learn this in school over here in the UK 😢.

  • @wiltonmcdonald2399
    @wiltonmcdonald2399 Před rokem +4

    I remember, I remember.
    R. I. P. Steve B.
    The struggle continues.

  • @nombreapellido9038
    @nombreapellido9038 Před 3 měsíci

    Thank you for putting this together. Very interesting. I would like to think that someday there will be no more hatred, bigotry or oppression but sadly- I don’t think humanity will ever be that amazing. 😢

  • @rajandranratnam8846
    @rajandranratnam8846 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Long live Steve Biko's struggle for South Africa.

  • @diaquallo
    @diaquallo Před 4 měsíci

    There were many tears shed for Steve Biko.

  • @dorothyshaahu3851
    @dorothyshaahu3851 Před 2 dny

    South Africa i hail you for your struggle for being what you are today and you will continue to struggle till you would reach where you deasire