Without going into a lot of details, his memory has been heavily appropriated by the mainstream anti-apartheid movement because it suited their cause, but Biko was not a fan of the ANC and did not agree with many of their strategies or policies.īiko was picked up by the police on his way back to Qonce after visiting Cape Town to speak with Neville Alexander, another famous anti-apartheid activitist and Robben Island detainee. ![]() ![]() General CommentStephen Bantu Biko was born in Qonce (in English, known as King Williams Town) in what was then called the Ciskei Bantustan, one of the few tiny tiny areas of South Africa where black people were allowed to own land.
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