BIKO INQUEST: Apartheid police captain recalls ‘wrestling’ Biko during interrogation
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.
Former apartheid security policeman Daniel Petrus Siebert testified at the reopened inquest into Steve Biko's death that, during his interrogation on September 6, 1977, Biko was wrestled and hit with a garden hose by several Security Branch officers. Siebert, now 80 years old, could not confirm whether this incident caused Biko's fatal head injury, which occurred five days later.
Biko's condition remained unclear to Siebert, as he described his memory of the events as "extremely vague" and had no independent recollection of his testimony to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1997. He still stood by the evidence he gave at the original inquest in 1977. The inquest continues to investigate the circumstances surrounding Biko's death, which took place on September 12, 1977.
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