South Africans commemorate Steve Biko

On this day 40 years ago, anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko was killed by police on a stone floor in a prison cell in Pretoria.

President Jacob Zuma visited Kgosi Mampuru II Prison, where Biko died.

“No one must criticise you if you say: ‘Let us change the ownership, the institutions, the control of the economic heights.’ He stood for that,” Zuma said.

“Not when there are people who sleep under bridges and when society is talking to itself without discussing how to solve the problems of the country.”

He went on to say that South Africans must thrive to liberate themselves.

President Jacob Zuma laying a wreath at the prison cell in Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre where #SteveBiko died, 12 September 1977 pic.twitter.com/6AGD3StcZk

— South African Government (@GovernmentZA) September 12, 2017

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In an interview with eNCA, EFF national spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi reckons Biko almost predicted he was going to die during an interrogation with the police.

“Ask your questions, and I will answer them. There is no need for any physical confrontation, because if you hit me, I am going to respond with all of me. You’re going to have to beat me up and kill me without the intention to do so,” he quoted him.

“That is important because that signified the pride, the personal worth that he felt in front of an embodied white supremacist,” Ndlozi said.

[WATCH] EFF Spokesperson @MbuyiseniNdlozi discusses #SteveBiko's legacy. eNCA DStv Channel 403 / https://t.co/srSwp4puiM / DStv Now pic.twitter.com/K5efm6gRJo

— eNCA (@eNCA) September 12, 2017

Steve Biko may be gone, but he is definitely not forgotten.

Today we remember #SteveBiko who was killed by the apartheid regime 40 years ago in 1977, on this day; 12 September. Long Live Biko! pic.twitter.com/EhrHkDs32M

— Mbuyiseni Ndlozi (@MbuyiseniNdlozi) September 12, 2017

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Black Consciousness Movement founder & fearless son of the African soil, #SteveBiko pic.twitter.com/jxgQUUunp7

— Min. Nathi Mthethwa (@NathiMthethwaSA) September 12, 2017

1977 12 September#SteveBiko died, naked on a mat on a stone floor in a prison cell. Killed by the apartheid regime. They walk among us.

— Pinky Khoabane (@pinkykhoabane) September 12, 2017

#SteveBiko’s murder was a watershed moment in the struggle for freedom for black SAfricans, & today we celebrate & commemorate his legacy.✊

— Democratic Alliance (@Our_DA) September 12, 2017

"In the long run the special contribution to the world by Africa will be in this field of human relationships" –  #SteveBiko #Biko40Years pic.twitter.com/ZJInaCyNPE

— SteveBikoFoundation (@BikoFoundation) September 12, 2017

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