What are we going to do to continue the unfinished struggle for the emancipation of Black people? This - according to Legal scholar and Senior Counsel Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi - is the question that late Black Consciousness Movement leader, Stephen (Steve) Bantu Biko still poses to us amid current formidable challenges in the country.
Ngcukaitobi delivered the keynote address at the Annual Steve Biko Public Lecture at Nelson Mandela University under the theme: The murder of Steve Biko: Is the legal order complicit?
On the 12th of September 1977, a young anti-apartheid activist and the brains behind the black consciousness movement, Stephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was murdered.
He died at a time when his ideals of Black Consciousness were beginning to inspire Black people to act against their oppression - presenting a real threat to the apartheid government.
Decades later, those men fingered in the murder of Biko were not prosecuted prompting a question of whether the legal order is complicit in his murder.
