@Militant20 A play called The Biko Inquest was put on in 1979, I certainly saw a production on my campus in England. Looks like this was made into the film shown here.Also check out Donald Woods, the journalist who got the photos of Biko s body out to the press. The film Cry Freedom is also very powerful.
Just been watching BBC4 The World Against Apartheid and this week covered Soweto and Biko's life and death. They used this over the closing moments and instantly tears were streaming down my face, and although I don't know what I could have done at the time - as a teenager, I feel the weight of a collective guilt that we did so little to support reform in South Africa.
@TheMimifur Believe me we did our best as students then, at least at my university (Sussex), boycotts, protests, concerts. My skin still crawls when I hear that Afrikaans accent. But my proudest moment..standing on the pitch at Wembley Stadium in 1990 as Mandela came on stage to say thank you to us!!! after all he had been through. I clapped and cried in equal measure .Him and Desmond Tutu true humanitarians. And the weird thing..those white South Africans in this doco still don't 'get it'
@holitipu I have been most horrified by some of the words coming out of the Saffers. They really still don't get it and yet are happy to be filmed by Connie saying those dreadful things. Two more episodes to go on BBC4. Brilliant.
We watched this in my history class and i feel in love with this song and i remember why we are thpught these things... So they dont happen again. This story reminds me of emmett till from PA he flirted with a 'white' girl and was beaten and thrown into the mississippi.
@debtbully3 what a load of shit! though im glad the bakers are ok, i need my daily loaf! everyone is down on the bankers yet noone has a pop at multi nationals like walmart and tescos, grow up and enjoy the music, keyboard warriors get nowhere
Racism is alive because there are still people who sells other´s people lifes. There´s still people who hides de stolen welthyness behind frontiers, while the people in te poor sides works for them for cents. Racism is alive because we can´t share the food that is still enough for every alive creatiure in the world. But some of us prefer to waste it, in stead of sharing.
@SLAM234 Anti-caucasian sentiment? Are you aware of Hollywood's racist casting practices? Don't attack the messenger. Attack the source of the racism in Hollywood... Hollywood itself.
This is the song that got Peter Gabriel banned not only from entering South Africa during the Apartheid years, but also banned all of his songs from airplay.
Religious persecution leads to hatred, leads to genocides, leads to outright fear, leads to those who fear attending religious establishments to seek salvation. Manufactured, manipulative and deviant carousel.
There is only 1 God... He was called Charles Darwin
Remember Donald Woods... who fought for Biko. (Which appears in the movie played by Richard Attenborough, I think). He showed that there was a way outside hate. That there was a way that the sistem-controlled ones could rebel against the sistem.
@KumbayaSalot It's bad that the people behind the movie committed an apartheid of their own by making Biko a supporting character in what should have been a movie about him and his life. Instead, it's about Donald Woods, a white journalist, saving the day. Just as the movie Mississippi Burning is about two FBI agents saving the day for the civil rights movement. Because of these ridiculous perspectives, these movies are jokes.
Mankind is in real trouble, and no religion, faith or confidence will make it any better, I find it funny that people wanna save the Planet and we do not even know how to take care of ourselves! It will be over in the blink of the eye!
We watched this movie in class. It made me think about how cruel they were and how much we have changed and how much it was very wrong. Who do they think they were?? R.I.P Biko♥♥ you will forever be loved.
r.i.p steven biko gone but never forgotten. you fought a nation that was ignorant to the fact that you were coloured. south africa is nothing but a pig racist nation.
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??????????? ερχεται... υπαρχει καπου σε παλιοτερη αναρτηση μου πριν την πρωτοχρονια μια προβλεψη του καιρου για το 2011 που ελεγε οτι σε ολο των πλανητη θα ανοιξουν οι ουρανοι βροχες ραγδεες θα φουσκωσουν οι θαλλασες θα πλυμμηρισουν τα ποταμια..θα βγουν στους δρομους ..τα νερα τους και εκατομμυρια καταβρεγμενων παρεσυρμενοι απο αυτα θα χωρευουν τον δικο χορο!!!ευτυχης!!
some people still have no clue they were born with a silver spoon hanging fae their top lip & only left left RSA because their lifestyle dramatically changed when nelson mandella came to power & rightly so; he's done so much more for his country than that murdering git in Zimbabwe & i defy anyone who like myself has lived in both countries;
' You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire----Once the flames begin to catch, the wind will blow it higher!" AMEN! I just wish it didn't take so long for people to come to their senses.....
Every human being is equal in the eyes of God and therefore the dead of Steve Bantu Biko is a great lost to all races because he believed in the rights of all races to live in unity and harmony. Steve Bantu Biko, you are my hero.
I was beaten and tortured in "custody" by LAPD and UCLA PD and then later by another "doctor" named John Moeller of Rancho Palos Verdes, California. I am white and was on a full scholarship to University at the time. This song helped give me light and courage to report my attackers. This, not in S.A, but in Los Angeles, CA. They tortured me for insurance benefits, every last dollar. Torrance Memorial Medical Center and the Ronald Reagan Medical Center are houses of torture. FYI. . . 777
It is dangerous and takes great courage to stand up against a wrong widely perceived by the status quo as right. Dr. Martin Luther King did that and so did Steven Biko. I hope they rest in a land where no discrimination exists and their courage is honored.
I grew up in SA in the 1980s & I had a pretty idyllic childhood. I am always shocked by what happened in this country even in my life time. Whites in these films are either heroes or villains. I think most whites in SA were neither. English-speaking whites, like my family, were just living ordinary lives when these things were happening. Sure, the Government kept a lot hidden, but I also think we chose to ignore a lot to keep the good life. I fear it might be the same in the West even today.
And he is speaking with common sense. PREPOSTEROUS!
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You're right my friend.
You know what i hate?
People that didn't see how it went down there and put their opinion in your face so arrogantly as in saying "i am right!" only based on what they see in TV.
I used to work with a black SA, Nick. He used to tell me me how life was much better before. He went back in SA for a holiday and they shot him for his golden necklace. Dead.
and also: Remember those guys in the past which were responsible for: A fertile ground here! Many, mqny years in the pats ..and for the Future together
The brutal slaying of Bantu Biko was another evidence of how evil the criminal apartheid regime in Pretoria could get. Coming hot on the heels of Soweto uprisings, the murder of Biko,a medical student, was to awaken the conscience of many European governments to the reality of apartheid and coax them into action.
This song graphically captures those times. However painful the memories could be, you can't help but play it over and over again.
@malosenyatlo mate. Sadly, European Governments don't have a conscience. Everything they do is related to something that might help economically or strategically or politically the West.
Why did they need to end apartheid? Cause of its brutal violence? Don't feed me that please. There are many countries in africa that had a far far far worst situation than SA back then. There must be a political reason behind it, which we will find out later on in the future i suppose, like everything else.
Thanx very much for responding to my comment. I would agree with you completely that the motives for many European governments for helping unseat the government here in Pretoria were suspicious - and will remain so.
All on this blog agree that Biko stood for what's emotionally and intellectually liberating - something that does not bode well with many established orders, including the present South African order.
Watch out, the new world order is about. What a fucking boring planet thats going to be. Speak out and your gone. In years to come, so called outspoken ones will be murdered. But on a much bigger scale. The loss of Biko is just a picnic compared to whats coming.
Rest in Peace STEVE BIKO!!!!!!! And all you racist bastards burn in hell. Shut the fuck up and burn in fuckin hell you goddamn racist BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello Roman Empire - eh white Ancient Greece -eh white Great Britain- eh white France, Germany, Poland, Russia -eh white Africa and the U.S. are just slaves. What you know the kings of the kingdoms of Africa Rich countries in Africa, eh? What you know scientists, explorers of Africa, eh? Blacks, Nigga got everything from white is a historical fact Greetings from the White Europe
@joppe19910 Mate, he is right. You dont have to look so far, look at what's happening now in South Africa. The same South Africa we tought Free after the evil whites were kicked away. Look at it, it's turning into a common, african state. It was considered a "developing country" together with india and brasil... now it's slipping back to third world country. They have been soppressed but then again all of us in europe have been soppressed at some stage, yet we managed to carve out a society.
Con todo respeto sabes quien era Bantú Stephen Biko?, sabes todo lo que el sufria y todas la ideas que tenía?, supongo que has de ser morena pero no negra, por favor las ideas de biko buscaban crear una conciencia negra y por lo que veo tu no eres pobre ya que tienes dinero suficiente como para usar internet, si quieres sacar al Biko "que tienes dentro", empieza por escribir bien y no deshonres su memoria diciendo que hay que sacar afuera a Biko....
A buen entendedor.....pocas palabras..... Si entiendo bien tu piensas que hay que ser negro y pobre para compartir las ideas de Biko. Yo diria que leas mejor para poder comprender.
James Watson said black people is not so inteligent like white people,but Martin Luther King,MalcolmX,Nelson Mandela,Steve Biko, they are all black mans,they make History using Love,Words,Peace,for Humans Rights,but they was assassined(excluded Nelson Mandela,and we will see Barack Obama),in white hands.Sometimes i ask myself if the world it was much better without White People?Wars,Guns,Misery,Poverty,Apartheid,Racims,Money,Power...it was black people invented all that things???
@001975aazzaaz im sure that there is alot more black people that your missing cuzz all you named was guys. and im sorry they wasnt fight for human rights they was just fighting for the rights of there race. not humans as a whole. and malcolm x was murdered by a black man with a shotgun. but white people yes has killed but also they saved too. aristotle, plato, galileo, albert einstein, basically the whole enlightenment and renesance movement was started by whites. soo you cant say that shit.
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Who assassined MalcolmX,it was a black man but behind this assassined have hand from WHITE PEOPLE because white people use a lot strategy,just for said White people is not involve,it was White people send this man to assassined MalcolmX.The World became much better without WHITE PEOPLE,my answers is YES,WHITE people just thing in MONEY and POWER,is the reason have Wars,behind War came POVERTY,MISERY,DISEASES....WHITE PEOPLE represent EVIL,DEVIL,everything is BAD.
you know you giveing white people alot of credit. you realize that right? your basically calling them smarter although more devious then black people and others. you do realize that. and no white people didnt send him it was the group that malcolm x left that sent the black assassins after him. read it dude. really so war from white people makes the tribes in africa starve??? yeah i get your logic.
@001975aazzaaz because whites contributed just as much as blacks. and you fail to realize way back when black people enslaved there own kind in africa before whites even came there. read about it man. rascism also goes for both sides, just cuzz whites are assholes means blacks have to be as well? thats not going to solve anything thats why we need to come together to make this world peaceful and stop looking at the color of our skins and start caring about whats on the inside, the man themselves
@001975aazzaaz and john lennon and others also talked of peace. i dont think black people made up the hippy movement. i think that was all white people. so your totally misinformed. but as i was saying who cares about the colors. its the person that matters. and what if black people was in charge, and it was the white man getting fucked what would you say then??
@001975aazzaaz im merely trying to give you other avenues because the way your thinking isnt the solution. people have to just learn how to get along and anomosity towards one race isnt helping one bit.
I lived during apartheid, as long as you were white and didn't say anything, you were fine...
Now in the UK, as long as you do not protest on the street, or go against government sanctioned orders, youre fine...
In the US, as long as you go along with the system, hand over your weapons, take the swine flu shot and any microchip they may ask you to take, youre fine..
We have failed to learn anything from history, we are living in a prison, and we don't even know it!
What a stupid comment. Nobody was forced to take swine flu shots (even though it was sensible). When were you forced to "hand over your weapons"? The US has low levels of gun control compared to other countries. And who the FUCK has put a microchip in you? You sound like a paranoid nutter.
Your examples of lack of freedom today compared to apartheid is fucking ridiculous
@mikmic69 The point is we are living in a prison on this planet. It is a funny world where Nelson Mandela comes out of prison as a Freemason (order of St John) to be precise. Apartheid was just another setup like communism.
@herbertwarmstrong I agree with you, I haven't lived during the apartheid but your comment was the best comment I ever saw in youtube.We are indeed in a prison,a prison without bars.
non cè cosa peggiore chè;interi popoli e nazioni vengano brutalmente ignorate le loro speranze,i loro futuri di pace, e di sete di giustizia...cause di Regimi totolaristi,...gridando a voce alta BASTA!!!CONTRO I POPOLI AFRICXANI,ALLA LORO PELLE,RELIGIONE,CONTRO L'HAPARTIDE........PACE E PROGRESSO DI CIVILTA'.......CLAUDIO
Can somebody please enlighten me on what film those scenes are from?
Militant20 2 weeks ago
@Militant20 A play called The Biko Inquest was put on in 1979, I certainly saw a production on my campus in England. Looks like this was made into the film shown here.Also check out Donald Woods, the journalist who got the photos of Biko s body out to the press. The film Cry Freedom is also very powerful.
holitipu 2 weeks ago
@Militant20 SORRY the extracts shown here are from Cry Freedom not the play I saw in 1979 !!
holitipu 2 weeks ago
Just been watching BBC4 The World Against Apartheid and this week covered Soweto and Biko's life and death. They used this over the closing moments and instantly tears were streaming down my face, and although I don't know what I could have done at the time - as a teenager, I feel the weight of a collective guilt that we did so little to support reform in South Africa.
TheMimifur 2 weeks ago
@TheMimifur Believe me we did our best as students then, at least at my university (Sussex), boycotts, protests, concerts. My skin still crawls when I hear that Afrikaans accent. But my proudest moment..standing on the pitch at Wembley Stadium in 1990 as Mandela came on stage to say thank you to us!!! after all he had been through. I clapped and cried in equal measure .Him and Desmond Tutu true humanitarians. And the weird thing..those white South Africans in this doco still don't 'get it'
holitipu 2 weeks ago
@holitipu I have been most horrified by some of the words coming out of the Saffers. They really still don't get it and yet are happy to be filmed by Connie saying those dreadful things. Two more episodes to go on BBC4. Brilliant.
TheMimifur 2 weeks ago
AWESOME....
luisasoler 1 month ago
This song is to be a message to The Federal Reserve!
unatics 2 months ago
the studio version is way better
hamtyl07 2 months ago
Colours, only to be separated when you do your laundry. There is only one race, the human race!
sinner3x23 2 months ago 3
Mandela was a political prisoner for years, and lived. Biko? Why didn't get to just be a prisoner? Sucks
RandomGT5 2 months ago
We watched this in my history class and i feel in love with this song and i remember why we are thpught these things... So they dont happen again. This story reminds me of emmett till from PA he flirted with a 'white' girl and was beaten and thrown into the mississippi.
cinemaalienchild 2 months ago
9 People do not believe in the Human Spirit and do not believe in Human Sovereignty. Stephen Biko should be a beacon of light for us all now.
snowdog523 2 months ago
Stupid should've stayed where he was allowed
bikinbaconlovers 3 months ago
@bikinbaconlovers fucking racist.
mr82x 3 weeks ago
White power!
bikinbaconlovers 3 months ago
A martyr,a hero but must of all a credit to the human race.We need more steven bikos
ezfla 3 months ago
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we are free.
michaeleish 3 months ago
more relatable than mandella.
ucf1999 3 months ago
Fantastic song. And I'm a white South African.
Msmynah1 4 months ago
kitty2kats sounds like a pretentious tosser.
AvEryBadApPLe 4 months ago
Stephen Biko, December 18, 1946 - September 12, 1977. NEVER FORGET!
nico19611 5 months ago
kanye west needs to do a song like this instead of making random comments on tv... its bigger than george bush dude!
SUPERNATNY 5 months ago
Bloody brilliant song...Go peter
tallbird11 5 months ago
8 people obviously are fucking racists???
Mueller5032 5 months ago
You shallrise above it,
and be better than you have before.
You shall take on the whole world,
and you will win.
Hold it in you heart,
and you will succeed forever.
TheRjb2010 5 months ago 2
this video was made in 1987 by godley & creme
meixter78 6 months ago
Anyone who voted against this voted for the National Party and supported apartheid
Bozewani 6 months ago
The banks are done with africa now they are home to roast.London burns and the bakers are safe just blocks away.No one is free we all are Biko now.
debtbully3 6 months ago
@debtbully3 what a load of shit! though im glad the bakers are ok, i need my daily loaf! everyone is down on the bankers yet noone has a pop at multi nationals like walmart and tescos, grow up and enjoy the music, keyboard warriors get nowhere
funjonno71 5 months ago
My favorite peter Gabriel song
Kemjmcg19 6 months ago
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andyissocoolike 7 months ago
Whats the film thats clipped in the video? I'm guessing its called Biko or something along those lines?
mikecreed22 7 months ago
@mikecreed22 I think its called cry freedom
onebadlt123 7 months ago
@onebadlt123 you are correct, Cry Freedom
tmlafrance 6 months ago
Racism is alive because there are still people who sells other´s people lifes. There´s still people who hides de stolen welthyness behind frontiers, while the people in te poor sides works for them for cents. Racism is alive because we can´t share the food that is still enough for every alive creatiure in the world. But some of us prefer to waste it, in stead of sharing.
danielloredojr 7 months ago
@SLAM234 Anti-caucasian sentiment? Are you aware of Hollywood's racist casting practices? Don't attack the messenger. Attack the source of the racism in Hollywood... Hollywood itself.
TsugaruClan 7 months ago
how can't you love this song... BIKO
baconki 7 months ago
This is the song that got Peter Gabriel banned not only from entering South Africa during the Apartheid years, but also banned all of his songs from airplay.
MrUnidyne 7 months ago
Religious persecution leads to hatred, leads to genocides, leads to outright fear, leads to those who fear attending religious establishments to seek salvation. Manufactured, manipulative and deviant carousel.
There is only 1 God... He was called Charles Darwin
reacher29 7 months ago
awesome
kamran63 8 months ago
Remember Donald Woods... who fought for Biko. (Which appears in the movie played by Richard Attenborough, I think). He showed that there was a way outside hate. That there was a way that the sistem-controlled ones could rebel against the sistem.
KumbayaSalot 8 months ago
@KumbayaSalot Close, Richard directed the movie. Woods was played by Kevin Kline.
schapman711 8 months ago
@KumbayaSalot It's bad that the people behind the movie committed an apartheid of their own by making Biko a supporting character in what should have been a movie about him and his life. Instead, it's about Donald Woods, a white journalist, saving the day. Just as the movie Mississippi Burning is about two FBI agents saving the day for the civil rights movement. Because of these ridiculous perspectives, these movies are jokes.
TsugaruClan 7 months ago
Religion is the cause of all violence in the world yet religion is meant to be good, what a joke....
kittvskarr1 9 months ago
@kittvskarr1 Religion had nothing to do with Biko...
weyand123 8 months ago
@kittvskarr1 Don't forget that people also fight over race and ethnicity, and money and power. Religion is also another factor, not the only one.
TsugaruClan 7 months ago
This song changed my way of thinking, of who I am a as a person, and the way I see other people interact with instinct and free will.
coolhot22 9 months ago
Mankind is in real trouble, and no religion, faith or confidence will make it any better, I find it funny that people wanna save the Planet and we do not even know how to take care of ourselves! It will be over in the blink of the eye!
geeksgaloremarmora 9 months ago
Because.
k2oliber 9 months ago
Beautiful
nayrbgo 10 months ago
THOSE MEN LIKE STEPHEN BIKO REMINDS US THAT HUMAN STANDS UP ON 2 FEETS R.I.P BIKO
Civilsitis 10 months ago 10
i was stuck on a question on a history test today about which anti-apartheid leader died in jail. then i remembered this awesome song.
kiwimcoffee 10 months ago
We watched this movie in class. It made me think about how cruel they were and how much we have changed and how much it was very wrong. Who do they think they were?? R.I.P Biko♥♥ you will forever be loved.
livelaughlovegymnas1 10 months ago
No one can erase a man dignity. He did not die.....he will live forever because of his courage.
lialammas 10 months ago 2
@lialammas amen
bmarx01 9 months ago
what a powerful tune
greenmonte454 10 months ago
what a powerful tune
greenmonte454 10 months ago
Biko was the equality Einstein
licko2 10 months ago
ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN,
LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITHE, LOURDE, WHITMAN,
BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA,
MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GUARDSIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY,
DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMNINOV,
ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHOWAY, HENDRIX, KUTL, DICKERSON, RIPPERTON,
MARY, ISIS, THERESA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX
Ido22 11 months ago
HohohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooMo
Ricoohh279 11 months ago
Hohohoooooooooooooooomoooo
dragonden90 11 months ago
r.i.p steven biko gone but never forgotten. you fought a nation that was ignorant to the fact that you were coloured. south africa is nothing but a pig racist nation.
thesoulcrew1 11 months ago
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Ricoohh279 11 months ago
Biko is an inspiring leader
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johnnysmokeable 11 months ago
biko is the man to seport
ashiqmohammed 1 year ago 2
"you can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire
once the flames begin to catch
the wind will blow it higher"
bzsmith 1 year ago 47
??????????? ερχεται... υπαρχει καπου σε παλιοτερη αναρτηση μου πριν την πρωτοχρονια μια προβλεψη του καιρου για το 2011 που ελεγε οτι σε ολο των πλανητη θα ανοιξουν οι ουρανοι βροχες ραγδεες θα φουσκωσουν οι θαλλασες θα πλυμμηρισουν τα ποταμια..θα βγουν στους δρομους ..τα νερα τους και εκατομμυρια καταβρεγμενων παρεσυρμενοι απο αυτα θα χωρευουν τον δικο χορο!!!ευτυχης!!
MrMusicofthesoul 1 year ago
some people still have no clue they were born with a silver spoon hanging fae their top lip & only left left RSA because their lifestyle dramatically changed when nelson mandella came to power & rightly so; he's done so much more for his country than that murdering git in Zimbabwe & i defy anyone who like myself has lived in both countries;
geraldod1 1 year ago
4 people are nazi x_x
yuricostatelles 1 year ago
We need tihis more than ever. Thank you Peter.
TheWinter71 1 year ago
Ich wäre stolz wenn peter G. ein song über mich zu singen.
Hirsch3050 1 year ago
@Hirsch3050 Deine Grammatik du bei Joda gelernt hast.
SerjTankianism 1 year ago
@SerjTankianism Oh mann, hast recht, so ist das, wenn man im Brausebrand schreibt.
Hirsch3050 1 year ago
@Hirsch3050 Du säufer!! Ich verachte alkohol aufs tiefste :D
Prost.
SerjTankianism 1 year ago
apartheid
segregação
indeferença e somos nós os humanos
leaozinhoify 1 year ago
we watched Cry Freedom in class. i think i cried through the whole last two thirds of it.
i will never understand people.
inkblackRose 1 year ago
' You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire----Once the flames begin to catch, the wind will blow it higher!" AMEN! I just wish it didn't take so long for people to come to their senses.....
youmarley 1 year ago
sei ein Mensch, dann werden auch andere Menschen da sein. nichts ist verloren, ehe wir es nicht aufgegebeb haben..
ergotherapiegold 1 year ago
Every human being is equal in the eyes of God and therefore the dead of Steve Bantu Biko is a great lost to all races because he believed in the rights of all races to live in unity and harmony. Steve Bantu Biko, you are my hero.
Voiceofcameroon 1 year ago
it's so great
laANiiTah 1 year ago
R.I.P Steve Bantu Biko
MrGAVINPAUL 1 year ago 2
There are no black and white people,
there are human`s!!!!
e1i2b3e4 1 year ago 3
I was beaten and tortured in "custody" by LAPD and UCLA PD and then later by another "doctor" named John Moeller of Rancho Palos Verdes, California. I am white and was on a full scholarship to University at the time. This song helped give me light and courage to report my attackers. This, not in S.A, but in Los Angeles, CA. They tortured me for insurance benefits, every last dollar. Torrance Memorial Medical Center and the Ronald Reagan Medical Center are houses of torture. FYI. . . 777
thitchin 1 year ago 3
I wonder what political party the four people who disliked this vote for.
aburns1995 1 year ago 34
@aburns1995
maybe they didn't like the song?
Oh my god what a useless comment you put in.
leopacio 1 year ago
@leopacio there could also be an element of that too although i think it is highly unlikely
aburns1995 1 year ago
@aburns1995 Democrat
H20654 11 months ago
@aburns1995 Republicans no doubt!
sh4rkbyt3 11 months ago
@aburns1995 Yeah, I wonder.
wendyofwinter 10 months ago
@aburns1995 they dont no a good thing
barrynelo 7 months ago
One of my Sons is named for Biko and the other is named Mandela Nelson !
garyn1953 1 year ago 3
@garyn1953
I have an answer for ya, Social Services :)
leopacio 1 year ago
@leopacio I don't know what you mean
garyn1953 1 year ago
Rest in Peace Stephen Biko.
We pray that your country and whole community follows your lead.
Thank you
Sturrock64 1 year ago
we are on the 12 september...RIP Biko :*(
zionju44 1 year ago
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skrabban60 1 year ago
It is dangerous and takes great courage to stand up against a wrong widely perceived by the status quo as right. Dr. Martin Luther King did that and so did Steven Biko. I hope they rest in a land where no discrimination exists and their courage is honored.
AliceMarr 1 year ago
@AliceMarr -and not to be left out, "the man betrayed by a kiss"
humanity6fl9 1 year ago 3
That music change the world...
PabloCast 1 year ago
I grew up in SA in the 1980s & I had a pretty idyllic childhood. I am always shocked by what happened in this country even in my life time. Whites in these films are either heroes or villains. I think most whites in SA were neither. English-speaking whites, like my family, were just living ordinary lives when these things were happening. Sure, the Government kept a lot hidden, but I also think we chose to ignore a lot to keep the good life. I fear it might be the same in the West even today.
maddiek1980 1 year ago
@maddiek1980
OH NO!
A white South African Man! GET HIM!
And he is speaking with common sense. PREPOSTEROUS!
...
You're right my friend.
You know what i hate?
People that didn't see how it went down there and put their opinion in your face so arrogantly as in saying "i am right!" only based on what they see in TV.
I used to work with a black SA, Nick. He used to tell me me how life was much better before. He went back in SA for a holiday and they shot him for his golden necklace. Dead.
leopacio 1 year ago
martin luther king long dead, stop whinning about it
Spectator2crymes 1 year ago
@Spectator2crymes Why don't you be quiet. Evil sons of bitches love to preach late and confusing. But depises peace and love.
Renagade70 1 year ago
so many people died from "falls, or of no known cause" in south africa back then . thank christ things have changed for the better.
TheSandsie13 1 year ago
and also: Remember those guys in the past which were responsible for: A fertile ground here! Many, mqny years in the pats ..and for the Future together
Ammertann 1 year ago
remember the heros...
Ammertann 1 year ago
Grande Steve Biko, en la memoria
rockdelsur 1 year ago
The brutal slaying of Bantu Biko was another evidence of how evil the criminal apartheid regime in Pretoria could get. Coming hot on the heels of Soweto uprisings, the murder of Biko,a medical student, was to awaken the conscience of many European governments to the reality of apartheid and coax them into action.
This song graphically captures those times. However painful the memories could be, you can't help but play it over and over again.
malosenyatlo 1 year ago
@malosenyatlo mate. Sadly, European Governments don't have a conscience. Everything they do is related to something that might help economically or strategically or politically the West.
Why did they need to end apartheid? Cause of its brutal violence? Don't feed me that please. There are many countries in africa that had a far far far worst situation than SA back then. There must be a political reason behind it, which we will find out later on in the future i suppose, like everything else.
leopacio 1 year ago
@leopacio
Thanx very much for responding to my comment. I would agree with you completely that the motives for many European governments for helping unseat the government here in Pretoria were suspicious - and will remain so.
All on this blog agree that Biko stood for what's emotionally and intellectually liberating - something that does not bode well with many established orders, including the present South African order.
malosenyatlo 1 year ago
Watch out, the new world order is about. What a fucking boring planet thats going to be. Speak out and your gone. In years to come, so called outspoken ones will be murdered. But on a much bigger scale. The loss of Biko is just a picnic compared to whats coming.
TheBones1234 1 year ago
Amazing protest song, I remember it well. Where are these artists that are so needed today? Squashed by mega media corporate conglomerates I'd guess.
rediryou 1 year ago
what is the world coming to in this day
stumred 1 year ago
A powerful song like this has to raise the greatest hatred. Justice must be done, if only by words, and they are the most powerful of weapons!
A bullet can kill the moment, a word sounds forever!
Long live the human rights!
oroedor 1 year ago
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oroedor 1 year ago
Rest in Peace STEVE BIKO!!!!!!! And all you racist bastards burn in hell. Shut the fuck up and burn in fuckin hell you goddamn racist BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stammheimrokka 1 year ago
@Stammheimrokka tell it like it is brother
TheJamboy47 1 year ago
@Stammheimrokka ... nice constructive comment. Are people like you... the good guys? geez...
leopacio 1 year ago
heel goed bedankt
johanna794 1 year ago
jeg elsker denne sang, jeg synes den siger så meget om hvad Biko var udsat for!
1993ThePrincess 1 year ago
*sigh* I love such a simple powerful message. But nothing ends up that simple in this world.
Skidonti 1 year ago
Great song, by a great singer. Standing for an even greater meaning. RIP Steven Biko
Johnnygiggles 1 year ago
White power rules
1991KSU 1 year ago
@1991KSU You are shameful -not funny in the least. Haters will not suceed.
estherinharlem 1 year ago
1991KSU 1 year ago
@1991KSU Fuck you, idiot racist
axlldanny 1 year ago
@axlldanny That is so typical for Poland! I wish Someone would throw them out of the European community finally! Greetinx from Germany!
solitudinarian 1 year ago
Shut up Nazi Dog.Your friends of the Waffen SS and Wehrmacht killed Poland
Whites pilots from South Africa helped us in the Warsaw Uprising 1944.
fuck you nazi German
1991KSU 1 year ago
@1991KSU With this I declare that you Monad have an IQ of 3, oceanic plancton scores 5 at least.
solitudinarian 1 year ago
@solitudinarian I love Smolensk, the city where it rains potatoes as we had to learn two months ago...
solitudinarian 1 year ago
@solitudinarian -german gay, fuck you Welcome to the Polish.
The Good German is a dead German.
who is uglier than the Germans- German women.
1991KSU 1 year ago
@1991KSU Ignorance...
Grantrus71 1 year ago
@1991KSU
I'd like to kick u in the face :)
joppe19910 1 year ago
@joppe19910 -Fuck you Kafrem-lover.
Nigger ,black - chance for development under the care of white.
Rich countries in Africa hm RPA no .
Rich countries in Africa are : Congo, Ethiopia, Liberia, Zaire.
Africa loves peace :Tutsi and Hutu
You are a moron who does not know history and is afraid of their black neighbors.
1991KSU 1 year ago
@1991KSU
I'm belgian , I ain't got many black people living in my neighbourhood.
But I still think color doesn't matter!
joppe19910 1 year ago
@joppe19910 -ok my European colleague
think that blacks are so cool because I like 50 Cent.
The biggest racists are black everyone who was in the U.S. to tell you
Go to Africa, read some books that talk.
India, Asia, South America -people there want to work and grow.
As long as Africa was ruled by whites was to develop and now?
Peter Gabriel is a great musician - but it is the truth about the black African residents will not change.
1991KSU 1 year ago
@1991KSU
I would say that neither blacks or whites are racists.
Some ppl are , just don't generalise
joppe19910 1 year ago
@joppe19910 Mate, he is right. You dont have to look so far, look at what's happening now in South Africa. The same South Africa we tought Free after the evil whites were kicked away. Look at it, it's turning into a common, african state. It was considered a "developing country" together with india and brasil... now it's slipping back to third world country. They have been soppressed but then again all of us in europe have been soppressed at some stage, yet we managed to carve out a society.
leopacio 1 year ago
Ein großartiges Lied für einen großartigen Mann...
(A great song for a great man!)
SCaitan 1 year ago
WHEN? OH WHEN does the human family finally rise above using race as an excuse to treat other people wrong?!
SFCBenny57 1 year ago 21
@SFCBenny57 unfortunately I don't think it ever will in our lifetimes...and it pains me to say such a thing.
HypnoticPhantom 1 year ago
I use to play this song on headphones - Loud! Really loud. As loud til it hurts.
This song must hurt.
It must make You cry.
SH1974 2 years ago
mas de 20 años emocionandome esta cancion
cuanto significó y cuanto significa,
poderosa.
dingodaybeat 2 years ago
Dentro de cada uno de nosotras.....existe un Biko,solo falta sacarlo afuera.
arimillapan 2 years ago
Con todo respeto sabes quien era Bantú Stephen Biko?, sabes todo lo que el sufria y todas la ideas que tenía?, supongo que has de ser morena pero no negra, por favor las ideas de biko buscaban crear una conciencia negra y por lo que veo tu no eres pobre ya que tienes dinero suficiente como para usar internet, si quieres sacar al Biko "que tienes dentro", empieza por escribir bien y no deshonres su memoria diciendo que hay que sacar afuera a Biko....
rand66 2 years ago
A buen entendedor.....pocas palabras..... Si entiendo bien tu piensas que hay que ser negro y pobre para compartir las ideas de Biko. Yo diria que leas mejor para poder comprender.
nuevapiedra 2 years ago
Where´s the justice for Steve Biko??And the people assassined him???
001975aazzaaz 2 years ago 2
James Watson said black people is not so inteligent like white people,but Martin Luther King,MalcolmX,Nelson Mandela,Steve Biko, they are all black mans,they make History using Love,Words,Peace,for Humans Rights,but they was assassined(excluded Nelson Mandela,and we will see Barack Obama),in white hands.Sometimes i ask myself if the world it was much better without White People?Wars,Guns,Misery,Poverty,Apartheid,Racims,Money,Power...it was black people invented all that things???
001975aazzaaz 2 years ago
@001975aazzaaz im sure that there is alot more black people that your missing cuzz all you named was guys. and im sorry they wasnt fight for human rights they was just fighting for the rights of there race. not humans as a whole. and malcolm x was murdered by a black man with a shotgun. but white people yes has killed but also they saved too. aristotle, plato, galileo, albert einstein, basically the whole enlightenment and renesance movement was started by whites. soo you cant say that shit.
scienceatheism 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Who assassined MalcolmX,it was a black man but behind this assassined have hand from WHITE PEOPLE because white people use a lot strategy,just for said White people is not involve,it was White people send this man to assassined MalcolmX.The World became much better without WHITE PEOPLE,my answers is YES,WHITE people just thing in MONEY and POWER,is the reason have Wars,behind War came POVERTY,MISERY,DISEASES....WHITE PEOPLE represent EVIL,DEVIL,everything is BAD.
001975aazzaaz 2 years ago
you know you giveing white people alot of credit. you realize that right? your basically calling them smarter although more devious then black people and others. you do realize that. and no white people didnt send him it was the group that malcolm x left that sent the black assassins after him. read it dude. really so war from white people makes the tribes in africa starve??? yeah i get your logic.
scienceatheism 2 years ago
@001975aazzaaz Hate solves nothing donkey. You are really shameful. STOP THE HATE!
estherinharlem 1 year ago
@001975aazzaaz because whites contributed just as much as blacks. and you fail to realize way back when black people enslaved there own kind in africa before whites even came there. read about it man. rascism also goes for both sides, just cuzz whites are assholes means blacks have to be as well? thats not going to solve anything thats why we need to come together to make this world peaceful and stop looking at the color of our skins and start caring about whats on the inside, the man themselves
scienceatheism 2 years ago 2
@001975aazzaaz and john lennon and others also talked of peace. i dont think black people made up the hippy movement. i think that was all white people. so your totally misinformed. but as i was saying who cares about the colors. its the person that matters. and what if black people was in charge, and it was the white man getting fucked what would you say then??
scienceatheism 2 years ago 3
@001975aazzaaz im merely trying to give you other avenues because the way your thinking isnt the solution. people have to just learn how to get along and anomosity towards one race isnt helping one bit.
scienceatheism 2 years ago
I lived during apartheid, as long as you were white and didn't say anything, you were fine...
Now in the UK, as long as you do not protest on the street, or go against government sanctioned orders, youre fine...
In the US, as long as you go along with the system, hand over your weapons, take the swine flu shot and any microchip they may ask you to take, youre fine..
We have failed to learn anything from history, we are living in a prison, and we don't even know it!
herbertwarmstrong 2 years ago 24
Wise words.
men continue to be slaves to men, black/white/rich/poor... thats just detail.
mpathan 2 years ago
@herbertwarmstrong Twee nonsense.
dmoconnell76 1 year ago
@herbertwarmstrong
What a stupid comment. Nobody was forced to take swine flu shots (even though it was sensible). When were you forced to "hand over your weapons"? The US has low levels of gun control compared to other countries. And who the FUCK has put a microchip in you? You sound like a paranoid nutter.
Your examples of lack of freedom today compared to apartheid is fucking ridiculous
kekemankek 1 year ago 2
@kekemankek
An yet he is in the highest rated comment.
Makes you think doesnt it.
Just a few populistic sentences spread out and here you go.
Remember people, the mass is always bad.
leopacio 1 year ago
@herbertwarmstrong what the hell are you talking about ?
mikmic69 1 year ago
@mikmic69 The point is we are living in a prison on this planet. It is a funny world where Nelson Mandela comes out of prison as a Freemason (order of St John) to be precise. Apartheid was just another setup like communism.
herbertwarmstrong 1 year ago
@herbertwarmstrong
;)
YolandaBru999 1 year ago
@herbertwarmstrong I agree with you, I haven't lived during the apartheid but your comment was the best comment I ever saw in youtube.We are indeed in a prison,a prison without bars.
yuricostatelles 1 year ago
non cè cosa peggiore chè;interi popoli e nazioni vengano brutalmente ignorate le loro speranze,i loro futuri di pace, e di sete di giustizia...cause di Regimi totolaristi,...gridando a voce alta BASTA!!!CONTRO I POPOLI AFRICXANI,ALLA LORO PELLE,RELIGIONE,CONTRO L'HAPARTIDE........PACE E PROGRESSO DI CIVILTA'.......CLAUDIO
mikemause58 2 years ago
Thank You Peter Gabriel!
Thank you for bringing this to the attention of even more people, and to the young!
And most of all, To my attention.
Or I would have never known about this man who just wanted to be equal.
Biko.
It's actually very sickening to know just how cruel and sick people can be.
I can't even begin to imagine being in that position.
Always question authority.
AzBirdDog 2 years ago 3
If you really think the world is somewhat different today, then, you need to listen to the Alex Jones show! The world is going down fast!
herbertwarmstrong 2 years ago 3
Oh no, you read that wrong. I'm very sure that we really haven't stepped too far beyond 50 years ago or even 100.
AzBirdDog 2 years ago