On 12 September, South Africans commemorate 40 years since the death of Bantu Stephen Biko, anti-apartheid activist and founder of the Black Consciousness Movement. Biko died in police custody in 1977 after sustaining a serious head injury from being beaten by security police. Police beatings and tortures of political prisoners during the apartheid era were … Continue reading #Biko40 reminds us the police are still brutal