“Let’s eradicate inferiority complexes that bedevil the psyche of black people”
MOSEBUDI MANGENA Mosibudi Mangena ON September 12, 1977, that is 44 years ago, the life of a then 30 year old Steve Bantu Biko was snuffed out in the cruellest manner imaginable. After being subjected to torture and beatings in police detention in Qheberha, he was transported naked on the bare floor of a bakkie to Kgoshi Mampuru Prison in Tshwane where he died a lonely death in a cell. He was murdered in this callous way for daring to demand freedom for the majority black population in this country. Bantu Biko was an ordinary young man born in the…