On January 28, 1997, during South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, former apartheid-era police officers publicly confessed to their involvement in the 1977 killing of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. Biko’s death in police custody had become a global symbol of the brutality of apartheid, and the confession marked a significant moment in the country’s reckoning with its past.
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