Special Report Transcript Episode 65, Section 2, Time 22:47

On Thursday Advocate Bizos continues his relentless cross examination of Snyman and puts it to him that it was not Biko’s refusal to answer questions that led to him being injured or beaten up but simply his determination to remain seated after his white interrogators had ordered him to stand. // Was it your general view that a black man had to obey an order of a white man particularly a white man who was in the security police? // According to the state system or state order of that time it had been our thinking that that is the way that things should be done. // And your state of mind at that time and having regards to the words that you used in your application was that the late Mr. Biko was stubborn, ‘parmantig,’ [cheeky] and too big for his boots for a black man. // Your honour that was the case. // That he was a proud man and that your self-respect would have been insulted if he continued sitting on the chair. // Your honour we had to realize that he was a high profile person in the Black Consciousness organisations; he was a president of one of these organisations and by sitting he maintained his own status.

Notes: George Bizos; Snyman

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