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After a decade of silence, former President Thabo Mbeki has denied court findings that his administration interfered in the prosecution of apartheid crimes. But, Karyn Maughan writes that a trail of undisputed evidence tells a very different, and disturbing story.
Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko was just 30 years old when he died in the custody of South Africa's apartheid police force, which had initially and falsely tried to present his death as the result of a hunger strike.
Three pathologists later concluded that the former medical student had died as a result of brain lesions caused by repeated head trauma, which was sustained when he was beaten and tortured into a coma between 6 and 7 September 1977.
