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| Introduction | | | | Reactions |
| This is a film that was produced in South Africa | | | | The White South African authorities were very harsh |
| during the apartheid revolution period and it | | | | and hostile towards the blacks. They tortured and |
| demonstrates how the South African people were | | | | killed blacks in an inhuman way. Most of the killings |
| tortured and killed. The film has two characters who | | | | were as a result of the torture by the police where |
| are Woods and Biko. Woods is a newspaper editor | | | | some were even shot as they demonstrated in the |
| while Biko is a South African activist. Woods narrates | | | | streets demanding freedom. The whites were |
| the whole event starting from the genesis of racial | | | | inhuman towards the blacks and in my own view this |
| segregation till the end mainly focusing on the | | | | should have not happened, these treatment was |
| torturing and the killing of Biko. | | | | geared by mans greed toward economic power and |
| Summary | | | | political power. we should not let our drive to gain |
| Steve Biko in this film is a black South African activist | | | | power cause harm and death to the other people. |
| who tries to fight the whites who are practicing | | | | The killing of Biko was not justified and there was no |
| discriminate in South Africa. Biko has little support in | | | | need for torture, he would have faced trial in the |
| his movement but he keeps fighting for the rights of | | | | court and not die in cold blood, he however |
| his people. During his campaign that would oversee | | | | succeeded in sensitizing the rights of the blacks, Bikos |
| the achievement of freedom in the country he faces | | | | friend who is Woods shows that not all the whites |
| many challenges, however he meets with Woods | | | | were against the movement where some supported |
| who is a newspaper editor who helps narrate his | | | | the blacks in their campaign, it also shows the extent |
| story. | | | | of greed among the whites who threaten their own |
| Biko narrates all his grievances to woods who | | | | white with death and in the film it is clear that they |
| seemed to act as intermediary between the Biko and | | | | would have killed him despite being one of their own. |
| the whites, in the process they became close friends | | | | No religion in the world would support such acts, |
| and agreed to work together. Woods having known | | | | however we should not blame anyone for what |
| Biko employed him in his company and also some | | | | happened in the past but we should look forward to |
| more people from Biko’s race. It was | | | | making the world a better place for us to live. |
| unfortunate for Biko because he was taken to | | | | In my own view it was against human rights to |
| custody due to his activities. | | | | torture the blacks, the blacks originally lived in south |
| Biko was arrested and later tortured by the whites, | | | | Africa but when the whites entered they took over |
| according to the film the torture by the police led to | | | | leadership and initiated racial discrimination in all |
| his death. When Woods learnt of this he was very | | | | institutions, the blacks were alienated from their own |
| furious toward the police and authorities, he met with | | | | lives and whites determined the way of life. Worse |
| senior officers arguing that they were treating the | | | | occurrences were evident where blacks tried to fight |
| blacks unfairly. His efforts to make this to stop led to | | | | for their freedom and those arrested were tortured |
| him being threatened to stop defending the blacks. | | | | and killed leaving them helpless. This movie shows the |
| These threats however did not make him stop | | | | suffering underwent under colonial rule, it shows the |
| campaigning for the blacks, at one time in the movie | | | | cruel acts the whites undertook when they ruled |
| he is targeted by police officers who wanted to kill | | | | south Africa. In my own view such acts should not |
| him, however after he learns that he was a target | | | | have occurred and should never occur in the future. |
| he is helped by an Australian diplomat to escape. He | | | | |