48 years after Steve Pico’s death in the police seizure, South Africa to reopen the investigation into the death icon of apartheid.

Johannesburg – South Africa activist and control-The apartheid Leader Steve Pico died about five decades ago at the age of thirty in the police seizure. Family and others who saw his body on that day said that he was tortured and killed by the South African police, and that he had not died from the effects of hunger strike, as the officers claimed at that time.

Prosecutors announced on Friday that they were reopening an official investigation into the death of Pico, exactly 48 years after his death.

Pico, the leader of the liberation who founded and led the Black Awareness Movement in South Africa, became one of the world’s most recognized victims for the Apartheid era after his death in 1977 in the prison cell.

The National Prosecution Authority in the country confirmed, in a historic decision, that it will reopen an investigation to allow judges to judge whether the crime was committed.

No one has ever been detained at the expense of the death of Pico, and many police officers asked, but they did not receive a pardon for their alleged involvement during the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee in South Africa (TRC).

Pico was arrested at a checkpoint in what was then called Grahammestown, Makhnda, in August 1977. He was accused of violating the so -called “ban”, a procedure in the laws of apartheid in the era of apartheid, which allowed the authorities to restrict the movement of individuals who want to threaten.

Twenty days after his arrest, he was driving more than 600 miles, naked, with his legs in the back of the police car, to Pretoria. He died in prison a day after his arrival.

According to reports of family members and others who saw his body shortly after his death, Pico was brutally tortured by the apartheid regime police during his prison and he died in the end due to bleeding in the brain.

The only government investigation was conducted on the death of Pico in 1977, decades before the end of the apartheid ruling, and the judge reached a conclusion that no one was tolerated.

However, his death was met with international acquisition, and calls on the sanctions on the government of apartheid and its leaders that helped feed the global movement against the racist system.

Pico’s life in music was perpetuated by Peter Gabriel entitled “Pico”, just three years after his death, then again by the Rigi Ranskal “Steve Picot” in 1997. Denzel Washington played the anti -separation icon in “Cry Freedom” for 1987 “Cry Freedom.”

Five of the former police officers from the South African regime, who feared a special branch in TRC, witnessed that Pico attacked one of their colleagues with a chair, and that during a fight he followed to curb him, he hit his head on the wall, causing his death.

They admitted under the interrogation, however, that they complicated and presented false testimonies during the preliminary investigation of the year 1977.

“My father was a good healthy man, and we know that he died due to severe bleeding in the brain,” Nkosinathi Pico said in an interview with radio radio New Ziv Africa. “During the TRC operation, it was clear in light of the intense interrogation that one of the men confessed that they held his head and destroyed it in the wall, causing his death. They were deprived of pardoning TRC because of their lies.”

TRC, which conducted its work between 1996 and 2001, recommended more than 300 cases of trial by the National Prosecution Authority. So far, no one has been prosecuted by the crimes of the alleged apartheid era, however, leaving many families, including Pico, frustrated.

“It is very clear that the history of this country needs to be corrected,” Nkosinathi Biko said in the interview. “My father’s body is a live testimony for his recent minutes, torture and violence that has been visited. We must now deal with these matters 30 years away from our democracy, and it should have been dealt with better.”

In April, South African President Cyril Ramavusa ordered the investigation whether previous governments had intentionally prevented investigations and prosecution of the crimes of the apartheid era.

The National Authority to prosecute under pressure to official charges of the crimes of the apartheid era, which is claimed by individuals who did not receive amnesty through the TRC, as well as to bring accountability and answers to cases of human rights violations that were not resolved during the apartheid system.

Nkosinathi Pico said that his father’s legacy was about giving and investing in a joint society, and said that registration of the record was straight.

“I think our sense of victory, and our feeling of recovery is settling in the claim, which is necessary in investigations,” he said. “But it also settles in ensuring that the history of this country is correct and we lead to the value of human life and human dignity.”