Steven Biko took up the challenge against Apartheid while Nelson Mandela was in prison. Mandela's name was banned. The ANC was banned. Eventually Steven Biko was banned by the Totalitarian Regime known as the S.African government. Steve Biko attends college and becomes and activist.In 1968 Biko established an all-Black organization known as,the South African Students Organisation (SASO)and he becomes president in July of 1969. SASO adopted a new pro-Black and radical doctrine that became known as Black Consciousness which, by Biko's own definition, was the "cultural and political revival of an oppressed people."By 1971, the Black Consciousness Movement grows into a force in S.Africa. He wants Black students to know their history and be proud of who they are. In other words, he wants to raise their Consciousness.In an attempt to reform SASO from student centered to adult centered, Biko established the Black People's Convention (BPC) as well as Black Community Programmes (BCP). This prompts the government to ban Biko. He is not allowed to write anything down, speak to more than one person at a time, be in the room with more than one person at a time. He has to stay in his banning area.The Soweto riots saw students shouting about Black Consciousness . Biko defied his ban and left his banning area, spoke to crowds at sporting events, meetings and through newspaper reporter Donald Woods. Biko and Woods form a friendship that scares the Apartheid government. Biko is arrested out of his banning area , jailed and dies in custody, Sept.12,1977 from brain injuries.When Donald Woods tries to take the pictures of Biko's badly beaten body out of S.Africa, Woods is arrested and Banned. Woods has to escape out of S.Africa with a manuscript that tells the story of his friendship with Biko . That manuscript becomes the Book entitled Cry Freedom.
Scene from movie "Cry Freedom". The list represents people who died in police custody in S.Africa. The government silenced any "threat " to its policy of Apatheid. The "explanations" from the S.African Government left family and loved ones with little or no closure.