Biko inquest investigator tells of missing records, incomplete dockets
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The investigator tasked with piecing together the circumstances of anti-apartheid activist and the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement Steve Biko’s death was sent from pillar to post by missing docket pages and incomplete records, but managed to secure…
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The investigator tasked with piecing together the circumstances of anti-apartheid activist and the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement Steve Biko’s death was sent from pillar to post by missing docket pages and incomplete records, but managed to secure…
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