25 September 1977
Steve Biko, Black Consciousness Movement Leader, is buried

- Updated
- 30 Sep 2019

How we know this
- 01Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood).
- 02South African History Online,'Black Consciousness and Steve Bantu Biko'. from South African History Online,available at: www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed: 18 September 2013]
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Steve Biko, Black Consciousness Movement Leader, is buried. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012325
South African History Online (2011) 'Steve Biko, Black Consciousness Movement Leader, is buried', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012325 (Accessed: 7 October 2026).
South African History Online, Steve Biko, Black Consciousness Movement Leader, is buried [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012325, (accessed 7 October 2026).
"Steve Biko, Black Consciousness Movement Leader, is buried." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012325. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.
South African History Online. "Steve Biko, Black Consciousness Movement Leader, is buried." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012325.
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