“Cry Freedom” Apartheid, Steve Biko and Donald Woods

“Cry Freedom”

Apartheid, Steve Biko and Donald

Woods

Biko

Banned

1. Can’t be in a room with more than 1 person (except immediate family) at a time

2. Followed/watched by the police

3. Restricted to your hometown

4. Can’t write or publish anything

Steve Biko and Donald Woods were banned

Steve Biko-Founder of the Black Consciousness Movement

Donald Woods

What is Black Consciousness?

"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."From Steve Biko's evidence given at the SASO/BPC trial, 3 May 1976. "Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude."The Definition of Black Consciousness, I Write What I Like, 1978.

"It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die."

Steve Biko

Whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior."

STEVE BIKO

The Soweto Student Strike-1976

Over 700 black School children were murdered by the white police during this incident

They did not want to learn Dutch Afrikaans anymore-the oppressors language

A Soweto Slideshow

http://www.radiocampustoulouse.com/anim_riots.htm