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The cemetery’s most famous interment was that in 1977 of the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, Mr Steve Biko, after his death at the hands of the security police. During the planning to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the late Mr Biko’s death, it was proposed that the whole cemetery be proclaimed a Garden of Remembrance, since many of his friends, mentors and family are buried there.
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- Buffalo City
Steve Biko Garden of Remembrance
Ginsberg
Qonce
5601
South Africa
King William's Town
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Me. Stephen Bantu Biko, Ginsburg Cemetery, King William's Town District, Amathole District Municipality. Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency
The graves of the iconic leaders of the liberation struggle movements are a tangible representation of the intangible heritage aspects of organised resistance and defiance campaigns, against successive racially repressive regimes. They transcend different responses to eighty (80) years of intensification of repressive laws from deputations, passive resistance, defiance campaigns to armed struggle and mass struggles. They represent a conviction to a just political cause and attainment of political freedom leading to denial of personal liberties and an ultimate price of banning orders, house arrest, political assassinations, banishment, exile, political imprisonment and in-detention death.
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