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Steve Biko’s murder exposed deep racism in how medicine was taught and practised in South Africa

By Christa Kuljian, Research Associate, WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand
In 1966, Steve Biko began studying medicine at the University of Natal in South Africa, the same year that the general assembly of the United Nations declared apartheid a crime against humanity. As a young man, and a leading thinker, philosopher and activist, Biko made an indelible mark on the resistance against white minority rule and the racist system of apartheid.


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