In 1997, at South Africa's Truth Commission, police confessed to the 1977 murder of Steve Biko.

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In 1977, South African black civil rights leader Steve Biko died in police detention.

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Salvador's Steve Biko Cultural Institute, for example, offers preparation courses for the university entrance exams.

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Despite the impact that Mr Biko had made on his life he still sounded like a white liberal.

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Most famous is that of Steve Biko, leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, who died in police detention in 1977.

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During Mr Woods's years in exile, some of Steve Biko's colleagues had been furious that he appeared to be cashing in on the relationship.

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The Countryside Alliance has hired Sir Sydney Kentridge, a lawyer famous for attempting to prosecute police in South Africa for murdering Steve Biko, a black anti-apartheid activist.

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In testimony in March 1988 on the death of black leader Steve Biko in 1977, police officers who interrogated him admit they beat him but still say his death was accidental.

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