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South African police arrested Steve Bi, a major anti-apartheid activist

47
years ago

18 August 1977,

South African police arrested Steve Bi, founder of the Black Conscience Movement and an important anti-apartheid activist. He claimed that blacks would never get freedom if they felt less than whites. On 11 September, he was transferred to Pretoria, tied naked in a Land Rover for 1,200 kilometres. He died the following day of torture at the age of 30. The racist government said that hunger died from a strike. 20 years later, police recognized that Biko had been killed.

Source:

Josep Fontana, The Century of Revolution. Munduko history bat 1914

On this day
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1939Hitler's government launched a program to kill newborns with severe disabilities

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1977-01-09
==Death==Juan Manuel Iglesias Sánchez died in Sestao fleeing the Spanish Police
1977-01-11
General strike in Sestao to denounce the murder of Juan Manuel Iglesias by the Spanish police
1977-01-19
Legalization of ikurrina in Hego Euskal Herria
1977-01-22
Multitudinous demonstration in Donostia in favor of the Basque Government
1977-01-24
Five labor lawyers are killed by far-right gunmen on Atocha Street in Madrid
1977-02-26
The Civil Guard hit some 200 people who were closing in the church of Lekeitio
1977-03-08
First call of M8 in Euskal Herria
1977-03-30
Spanish Police Squad Kills Isidro Susperregi
1977-04-28
First action by Rote Zora, an armed team made up of German women and lesbians
1977-04-30
Fourteen women protested in Argentina to become the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
1977-05-08
The Second Week of Amnesty Begins in Hego Euskal Herria
1977-05-12
The Civil Guard murdered Rafael Gómez Jauregi on Week by Amnesty in Errenteria
1977-05-13
Black Day in Euskal Herria, Amnesty Week
1977-05-14
Spanish Police Killed Manuel Fuentes Mesa in Ortuella Week by Amnesty
1977-05-15
End of Amnesty's second week
1977-05-30
Death of mathematics professor Francisco Javier Nuñez by torture of the Spanish Police
1977-07-10
They began one of the most important mobilizations in history in the Basque Country: Freedom March
1977-07-14
Bilbao brings together about 200,000 people at the demonstration against the Lemoiz nuclear power plant
1977-07-31
In France 60,000 people were on the Antinuclear International March and the police killed a young man
1977-08-13
The fascists did not pass through Lewisham’s working-class neighborhood in London, although 5,000 policemen supported him.
1977-08-18
South African police arrested Steve Bi, a major anti-apartheid activist
1977-09-12
Tortured by police killed Steve Bi's referent activist against apartheid in South Africa
1977-10-02
First demonstration against military service in Donostia
1977-10-05
Attack of the extreme right at the headquarters of Punto y Hora de Euskal Herria in Pamplona
1977-10-06
Triple A paramilitary group kidnaps and kills Hernanian taxi driver David Salvador in Andoain
1977-10-13
Palestinian and German armed groups kidnapped an aircraft with Lufthansa tourists
1977-10-16
The Kilometroak festival was held for the first time between Beasain and Lazkao
1977-10-18
Nazi criminal war and leader of German employers was executed by armed group RAF
1977-10-20
Author and journalist Madalena Jauregiberri dies in Ziboz, Zuberoa
1977-10-26
8,000 factory workers locked their bosses at the factory in India because they were not paid the wages
1977-10-30
For the first time in 1936, people shot by Francoists at the Hernani cemetery were publicly honored.
1977-11-12
First night feminist rally under the motto 'Reclaim the Night' in Leeds, England
1977-12-04
Police killed young Manuel José García Caparros in Málaga, a giant Andalusian mobilisation
1977-12-08
The First Meetings of Women of the Basque Country begin at the University of Leioa
1977-12-18
David Alvarez was seriously injured in the shooting between ETA members and civilian guards at Lemoiz

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1969-08-03
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60
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1964-08-31
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60
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1964-08-11
Attempted attack on dictator Franco
60
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1964-08-07
U.S. Congress approved the use of the army against North Vietnam
65
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Miles Davis is beaten by police in New York
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They finally managed to extinguish the fire in the Landeta forest
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A giant fire took place in Landeta
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Anti-fascist soldiers liberated the city of Paris occupied by the Nazis
80
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1944-08-22
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1944-08-22
Revolutionary trade unionist Maria Oneker killed by the Nazis in Warsaw in an uprising against occupation
80
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Italian fascists killed the Irma Partisan Flag
80
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1944-08-10
Resistance member Daniel Argote was arrested and executed by the Nazis in Orthol
85
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1939-08-18
Hitler's government launched a program to kill newborns with severe disabilities
90
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Irun postpologists, all women, went on strike and occupied the workshop
100
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Born Madeleine Riffaud in Arvillers, France
120
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The dockers of the London ports started a major strike
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220
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220
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