Nkosinathi Biko | Farewell to Peter Jones, stalwart of the Black Consciousness Movement
Peter Jones, who was Steve Biko's close friend, was arrested together with Biko in 1977. He is at Biko's prison cell at the Walmer Police Station in June 2006. Photo: Die BurgerThe Biko family, as well as the Steve Biko Foundation, was saddened by the news of the death on February 15 of the stalwart of black consciousness, Peter Cyril Jones, following an extended period of ailment as a result of multiple strokes, the first of which occurred in 2019.
PC, as he was fondly known, graduated from Gordon High School in Somerset West in 1967 and in 1968, registered for a BCom degree at the University of the Western Cape . This was the year of the establishment of the South African Student Organisation , which was officially inaugurated in July 1969.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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