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What's meant by Racial Segretation?

• In Racial segregation people are treated differently because of the colour of their skin. Above all it means that people of colour are locally and socially separated from people with white skin colour
• One of the consequences of racial segregation experienced by the black South African population during apartheid was forced relocation to the townships
• In South Africa, the government began to introduce racial segregation from 1948, after apartheid was established and embedded in South African politics

What is the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act

• The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act is an apartheid law. This law included the prohibition of intimate relations or marriage between people with different skin colour. A distinction was made between people of black, coloured, white and Indian origin
• The law came into being on 8 July 1949 and was in force for 36 years before the regulation was passed again due to its moral and ethical usability

Who was Stephen Biko?

• Stephen Biko is still considered one of the most important civil rights activists from South Africa and at that time campaigned primarily on behalf of the Black Consciousness Movement for the rights of black South African citizens
• In his youth, the young man studied medicine, but he broke off his studies because he was already very involved in political circles at that time and no longer found time for his studies. At the age of 26, he participated in the founding of the Black Community Programme (BCP) and performed at large public gatherings. In 1973, the apartheid government imposed surveillance on him, as he had already caught the government's eye for some time with his boisterous activism
• Then, from 1975, his political involvement was completely banned and two years later he was caught by the police, who arrested him for violating his conditions. He eventually succumbed to injuries from a gunshot wound to the head, but the public image of his death as a result of a hunger strike was perpetuated