THE ROLE OF STEVE BIKO

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Across
  1. 3. Biko was the ................ of Black Consciousness in South Africa in the 1960s and 70s.
  2. 6. For his continued .................. Biko was detained and interrogated four times between 1975 and 1977.
  3. 8. Steve Biko was ............... and confined to King Williams Town.
  4. 9. urged the emancipation of black people by their own efforts which required discarding the inferiority complex imposed by apartheid and white racism.
  5. 10. The Black People's Convention, aimed at uniting various BCM organisations under one umbrella, elected .............. as its first president in 1977.
  6. 11. One of the BCM organisations focusing on social upliftment, general literacy, and black economic self-reliance.
  7. 13. What did Biko's death highlight about the South African security system.
  8. 16. Where was Biko transported naked, without medical escort, for 12 hours in the back of a police van.
Down
  1. 1. Black Consciousness was ideologically inspired by the .......................... freedom movement.
  2. 2. His brutal murder in police custody made him a ..................
  3. 4. Where did Biko enroll to study medicine after matriculation in 1965 in
  4. 5. Where was born?
  5. 7. sought to cultivate ................. and unity amongst all the oppressed people of South Africa.
  6. 11. Became active NUSAS but resigned in 1969 with a substantial body of black students who felt that NUSAS did not represent the needs of............
  7. 12. Led directly to the decision by Western governments to support the United Nations Security Council's ban on ........... to apartheid South Africa.
  8. 14. What happaned to Biko during his last detention at the headquarters of the Security Police in Port Elizabeth.
  9. 15. Biko was a speaker whose perception and energy urged people to take their .............. into their own hands.