Family South African Anti-porteide is confident in persecution

The son of an outstanding South African anti -port activist Steve Bica said the BBC family is confident that a new investigation into his death 48 years ago would lead to persecution of those responsible.

The founder of the black consciousness movement died as a martyr in the fight against the White Minority rule.

Police at the time said he hit his head against the wall, but after the apartheid ended in 1994, former officers confessed to him – although no one was prosecuted.

Nkosinathi Biko, who was six when his father died, said the country could not move forward without resorting to his violent past.

“It is very clear in our head what happened and how they killed Steve Bica,” he said the BBC after the first hearing took place in the Supreme Court in the South city of GcEberh – at the 48th anniversary of his father’s death.

It is claimed that Bica, which was subjected to a “ban” order, which restricted his movement and other events at the time of his arrest in 1977, was tortured by five police officers during his detention.

“What is required in this process is simply to follow the facts, and we have no doubt that the Democratic Court in a democratic state to find out that Steve Bica’s murder was an act organized and shot by those who were with him – five policemen concerning this case,” his son said.

On Friday, the judge heard that two people associated with the case remain alive, both in the 80s.

Bica’s death caused outrage in South Africa and became the subject of the Hollywood Cry Freedom 1987 with Denzel Washington.

He was a medical student at a natal university when he founded the black consciousness, aimed at expanding opportunities and mobilizing urban black population.

He was determined to fight the psychological inferiority, which was felt by many Black South African after many years of white minority rules and at the time when anti-portes, such as Nelson Mandela, silenced and got rid of the regime.

A new request takes place five months after President Cyril Ramaphos announced A court investigation into political interference with the persecution of apartheid crimes.

The Commission on Truth and Reconciliation (TRC), established in 1996, revealed the cruelty of the apartheid era, such as murder and torture, but few of these cases progressed to trial.

Bica’s case was considered in TRC, where police officers confessed that they made false statements 20 years earlier, but they were not held accountable.

“The accountability for our violent, cruel past is something that has evaded South Africa,” Nkosinati Bica said.

“You can’t have an injury we had, blood flow on the streets organized by the state against the people, and then you go out with less pursuit if you are successfully done.”

He said the families who felt that they had released the lack of persecution, which was recommended by the TRC, continued to press the government on justice.

“You can’t give the root of democracy without solving some historical issues,” he said.

The case was postponed until November 12.