IN MEMORIAM STEVE BIKO 12 SEPTEMBER 1977

Steve Biko died on 12 September 1977 - 39 years ago.

He died because he was murdered by the South African apartheid government and its police who used vicious and brutal assaults on prisoners to get what they wanted from them, and if they didn't, they battered them to death as they did with Steve Biko.

One had hoped that with a change of regime at the end of apartheid in 1994 that things would change and improve, but of course they haven't and the black South African government of Jacob Zuma is guilty of the murder of 38 miners at Marikana who were striking for more pay from a mining company which mine platinum and which responded to a miners' strike by getting the police to shoot at them and thus murder them.

In South Africa it seems as if there is no limit to the poison that issues forth there on a daily basis.