Google marks 70th birthday of renowned anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko-All you need to know about Steve Biko

Biko was a strong opponent of South Africa's apartheid policies and fought against them at the height of the movement in the 1960s and 1970s.
  He was born on December 18 1946 in GGinsberg township in what is today South Africa's Eastern Cape
Province.

946 in Ginsberg Township in what is today South Africa's Eastern Cape province. While in medical school, Biko co-founded the Black Consciousness Movement, which encouraged black people to take pride in their racial identities and cultural heritages.

  He was famously quoted as saying: “Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.”In spite of this, Biko continued to form grassroots organizations and organise protests, including the Soweto Uprising in June of 1976.

 Biko died in custody in September 1977, aged just 30, after being brutally beaten by police. His lover Mamphela Ramphele, who was 29 at the time was five months pregnant at time and was left sick with grief. She had helped him set up the Black Consciousness Movement and pledged to continue the fight to end South Africa’s racial segregation.
 
 Biko was viciously attacked by police before being manacled naked on an 800-mile drive to a Pretoria prison hospital where he died of a brain haemorrhage.

A Google spokesman said: "On the 70th anniversary of Biko’s birth, we remember his courage and the important legacy he left behind.

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