As I write this, I’m acutely aware that the interrogation of Bantu Stephen Biko, the medical student whom I got to know in 1968 and who soon became my brother, my comrade, my mentor, the father of Black Consciousness, was well under way 46 years ago at room 619 Sanlam Building Security Police Headquarters in Port Elizabeth/Gqeberha.
Detained with – but immediately separated from – Peter Cyril Jones on August 18, 1977, kept naked and shackled in solitary confinement for 20 days, before suffering severe concussion by September 7 (which was Peter’s 27th birthday), and driven on the back
