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King Williams Town news: Tech giant accolade for Steve Biko

19 December 2016 By Port Elizabethan

Tech giant accolade for Steve Biko: Biko, who was born in Ginsberg, King William’s Town, became a political activist while a medical student at the then-University of Natal. In an attempted cover-up, police said Biko had died from a hunger strike, but a Daily Dispatch exposé, written by …
Source: “King Williams Town” – BingNews.

Google commemorates Steve Biko’s 70th birthday: Biko, who was born in Ginsberg, King William’s Town, became a political activist while a medical student at the then-University of Natal. Biko died in police custody in September 1977 after being arrested in Port Elizabeth, brutally beaten, and transported …
Source: “King Williams Town” – BingNews.

Blessed 70th Earthstrong to Steve Bantu Binko!: Bantu Stephen Biko was born on December 18, 1946, in King William’s Town, South Africa, in what is now the Eastern Cape province. Politically active at a young age, Biko was expelled from high school for his activism, and subsequently enrolled at St …
Source: “King Williams Town” – BingNews.

Steve Biko: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know: Stephen Bantu Biko was born December 18, 1946, in Tylden, South Africa, and was raised in Ginsberg, King Williams Town in what is now the Eastern Cape province, according to the Steve Biko Foundation. His father, Mzingayi Mathew Biko, was a government …
Source: “King Williams Town” – BingNews.

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