Ntsiki mashalaba biography samples
In , Ntsiki Mashalaba married Steven Biko, the anti-Apartheid activist who was killed in a..
Bantu Stephen Biko: friend, father, jester and hero
In the Eastern Cape those who knew Biko remember him not just as a revolutionary but as a charmer with an irrepressible sense of humour
10 September 2017 - 00:00 By CLAIRE KEETON
Biko the husband
Nontsikelelo "Ntsiki" Mashalaba was a radiant young student nurse and dating another man when Biko met and pursued her.
Ntsiki Biko is a community activist, retired nurse, and the widow of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko.
Then a student at the University of Natal, Biko started dropping in at the hospital where she was training with packets of chips and chocolates for her.
"He invited me to the cinema and I would go but sometimes I would fall asleep," Ntsiki says.
"Afterwards he would take me back to the nurses' home. He would invite me to stay in his residence, but at first I was reluctant to sleep there. I was not that type. But then I started visiting him because he was a very busy man.
There would be more than 10 people in his small room, guys and ladies discussing politics."
Ntsiki rejected a marriage proposal from her other su