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    Cry Freedom

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    Cry Freedom Steve Bantu Biko was born December 18th 1946 and died September 12th 1977. He was an apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s till 1970s. He did founded the Black Consciousness Movement‚ which would empower much of the urban black population. And he became famous for his slogan "black is beautiful"‚ the meaning of it was that you should be happy as you are and begin to look upon yourself as a human being. Steve Biko wanted to be a doctor and ergo is the reason why he studied

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    Tong Gui Shuen S4 Science 1 CRY FREedom They said Steve Biko was a man of violence; then why did he talk of peace? They said he wanted revolution; so why did he talk of friendship? They said he died of hunger; why was his body broken and bruised? This is the story of a man’s fight with the government of South Africa. It is the story of all people who prefer truth to lies. It is the story of all people who cry ’Freedom’‚ and who are not afraid to die..... Synopsis Chapter 1- The Beginning

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    SONNET 116 | PARAPHRASE | | Let me not to the marriage of true minds | Let me not declare any reasons why two | | Admit impediments. Love is not love | True-minded people should not be married. Love is not love | | Which alters when it alteration finds‚ | Which changes when it finds a change in circumstances‚ | | Or bends with the remover to remove: | Or bends from its firm stand even when a lover is unfaithful: | | O no! it is an ever-fixed mark | Oh no! it is a lighthouse | |

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    doesn´t like police brutality against black people. So he also writes an editorial about a Biko‚ the leadership of „The BC“. The next day Dr. Mamphela who works for Biko in his clinic‚ comes to Woods office to speak to him‚ about this article. She is very angry‚ because she thinks‚ that Woods has printed rubbish about Biko and that he is uninformed about the ideas that Biko has. So she invents him to meet Biko in his banning area. Character | Quote | Conflict | Donald Woods * Brave * Rich *

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    majority of activists were being detained without trial‚ she organised night vigils and in the 1970s when the Black Consciousness Movement was starting to dominate‚ she was again banned and was subsequently detained for trying to organise a rally with Steve Biko. Shortly after her release in 1976‚ Meer survived an assassination attempt‚ when her house was petrol bombed. From the 1980s to the 1990s‚ Meer worked with NGOs‚ fighting for the rights of shack-dwellers and rural migrants. She headed the Natal

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    black people. So he also writes an editorial about a Biko‚ the leadership of „The BC“. The next day Dr. Mamphela who works for Biko in his clinic‚ comes to Woods office to speak to him‚ about this article. She is very angry‚ because she thinks‚ that Woods has printed rubbish about Biko and that he is uninformed about the ideas that Biko has. So she invents him to meet Biko in his banning area. chapter 2 and 3: Some days later Woods meets Steven Biko in an old church were he wants to make a centre for

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    Question 1. The film ‘Cry Freedom’ is set in the late 1970s‚ during the apartheid era. At this time‚ Mandela and the other leaders of the ANC and PAC had been arrested and imprisoned. Steve Biko was moving forward with Black Consciousness‚ and had already been banned by the government in 1973. This prevented him from being in the same room with more than one other person among other things like prohibiting teaching and making public addresses. Other things that were happening were that blacks were

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    Steve Biko vs. Malcolm X

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    Malcolm X and Steve Biko Black Consciousness Malcolm X and Steve Biko were one of the two most preeminent leaders in world history. These men changed lives and stood up for millions of Africans and African Americans during their short lives. These two men lived by a saying “black is beautiful”. They also believed that black people in the United States as well as Africans mainly in South Africa deserved the same rights and equality as any other man in the world. They lived through the rough era

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    Miss Vuyolwethu Tsili

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    Biko was born to parents Mzimgayi Mathew and Alice Duman Biki in King William’s Town‚ in the present-day Eastern Cape province of South Africa.[7] His father was a government clerk‚ while his mother did domestic work in surrounding white homes.[8] The third of four children‚ Biko grew up with his older sister Bukelwa; his older brother Kahya; and his younger sister Nobandile.[9] In 1950‚ at the age of four‚ Biko suffered the loss of his father who was studying law.[10][11] As a child‚ he attended

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    a black (Biko) is a revolutionary. Biko had not let out of a given area. Woods wrote a story on Biko say q is the head of a black consciousness and tb. says that blacks should be segregated from whites. Mamphlea enters the newspaper office and discuss with Woods‚ she defends Biko and Woods asks that before you include in your newspaper that report will report more about it‚ then Woods decides to go visit and Biko tells Mampel go to King William’s Town which is the restricted area of Biko. 2 º Woods

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