Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki delivered on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the death of Stephen Bantu Biko, 12 September 2007, Cape Town
… most painful circumstances. Born in 1946, Steve Biko was 16 years old when I left our country to go into exile in 1962. A year earlier, in 1961, when we organised for and launched the African Students … - indeed a regeneration moral and eternal!" In his 1961 Nobel Lecture, entitled "Africa and Freedom", Inkosi …