Martyr of the South African anti-apartheid struggle, Bantu Stephen Biko was a political activist, an author, a founder and the most prominent proponent of the Black Consciousness Movement, a cause for which he died. Born in Tylden on 18 December 1946, he was brought up in Ginsberg, King William’s Town and was to become one of the greatest sons of South Africa. He attended primary school in King William’s Town and went on to a missionary secondary school in Marianhill, KwaZulu-Natal after being expelled from the former for what was termed ‘anti-establishment’ behaviour. After completing school, he registered for a degree in medicine at the Black Section of the Medical School of the University of Natal in 1966.
