Peter Gabriel - Biko

Peter Gabriel - Biko

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[bzsmith]

"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"

[Civilsitis]

THOSE MEN LIKE STEPHEN BIKO REMINDS US THAT HUMAN STANDS UP ON 2 FEETS R.I.P BIKO

[TheMimifur]

@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.

[holitipu]

@Militant20 SORRY the extracts shown here are from Cry Freedom not the play I saw in 1979 !!

[holitipu]

@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]

@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.

[Militant20]

Can somebody please enlighten me on what film those scenes are from?

[TheMimifur]

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.

[mr82x]

@bikinbaconlovers fucking racist.

[luisasoler]

AWESOME....

[unatics]

This song is to be a message to The Federal Reserve!

[hamtyl07]

the studio version is way better