13/09/2021
'Walking In The Footsteps of the Biko'
11 September,1977, in Port Elizabeth, Biko is taken back to a cell in the morning the Security Police took him from the hospital, and back to a cell at Walmer Police Station. He was left on a mat on the cement floor of the cell, naked and under a filthy blanket.
A few hours later a warder found Biko lying on the floor with foam at his mouth, and glassy-eyed. He informed Major Fischer, who phoned Col. Goosen.
IN spite of his condition, Dr. Tucker examined Biko at 3.20 p.m. and saw no objection to Goosen sending Biko on a over 700 kms by road to Pretoria. Naked and manacled, Biko was left lying on the floor of a Land-Rover.
Upon arrival in Pretoria, he was carried into the prison hospital and left on the floor of a cell, without any medical records, 11 hours after leaving Port Elizabeth.
I am one of those who believes that at this stage Biko was already dead, and 12 September, was merely the date on which he was certified dead.
