BIKO INQUEST: Apartheid police captain recalls ‘wrestling’ Biko during interrogation

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BIKO INQUEST: Apartheid police captain recalls ‘wrestling’ Biko during interrogation — Sources: Daily Maverick

Ex-apartheid captain Daniel Petrus Siebert told the reopened inquest that Steve Biko was wrestled and hit with a garden hose during his Gqeberha interrogation, but he couldn’t say if it caused Biko’s fatal injury.

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BIKO INQUEST: Apartheid police captain recalls ‘wrestling’ Biko during interrogation

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