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Steve Biko’s murder exposed deep racism in how medicine was taught and practised in South Africa

Steve Biko’s murder exposed deep racism in how medicine was taught and practised in South Africa

In 1966, Steve Biko began studying medicine at the University of Natal in South Africa, the same year that the general assembly of the United Nations declared apartheid a crime against humanity.