House Chairperson, I would like to inform the House that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that September 12th marks the 33rd year since the death of distinguished anti-apartheid activist and outstanding young anti- apartheid revolutionary Steven Bantubonke Biko;
2) further notes that Steven Bantubonke Biko was arrested under apartheid anti-terrorism legislation by the apartheid regime and brutally beaten into a coma during interrogation while in shackles before being transported hundreds of kilometers from Port Elizabeth to Pretoria where he later died;
3) acknowledges the profound thoughts and the immense contribution that Biko and the rest of his militant generation of the 1970s, including Teboho "Tsietsi" Macdonald Mashinini, Hector Pieterson and many more, made in the fight for freedom in South Africa; and
4) takes this opportunity to join the people of South Africa to pay homage to this great stalwart and outstanding leader of our people who stood firm in his resolve and determination to fight for the liberation of our people from the brutality and dehumanisation that they endured from the apartheid regime and its vicious forces.