they then said, who is peterjones? and i said, that s me . he said, oh, and who are you, big man? that s now steve. and steve said, i am steve bantu biko. and we were then locked up together in one cell. the next morning we started getting an uneasy feeling because there were now more police and in a convoy of three cars we sped towards port elizabeth. in port elizabeth was the headquarters of the security police for that region. the building has been converted into a block of flats. steve biko was being walked to his death, along this very corridor, a man poised to fill the void left behind after mandela was jailed. we got taken up to the fifth floor and we were manacled, each to a separate window. one of the senior police, a major, came in and said, now i can confirm that
there shall be no minority, there shall be no majority, there shall be just the people. and those people will have the same status before the law and they will have the same rights before the law. the apartheid government ensured there was no resistance against its doctrines and against its policies. there was a roadblock and they then searched the car. they found an identity document, which was mine, they then said, who is peter jones? and i said, that s me . he said, oh, and who are you, big man? that s now steve. and steve said, i am steve bantu biko. and we were then locked up together in one cell. the next morning we started getting an uneasy feeling because there were now more police and in a convoy of three cars we sped towards port elizabeth.