Chapter VIII and IX

Up to this point, the system fights back. Steve Biko is released from prison while Mr. Woods goes to prison just for supporting Biko, but he cares less about it, because now he is sure that helping Biko as well as the black community is the right thing to do. Later on, after some months Mr. Wood is freed.

The government and the police make use of any means in order defeat the black revolution which by now is quite powerful. Steve Biko and Mr. Wood are threatened with death. Mr. Woods gets really worried because he has a wife, some children and a good social position, so he has a lot to lose which make him afraid.

On the other hand, Steve Biko also has a wife and a little son, but he is not afraid at all because he knows that he already won the fight, and that if he gets killed, the government are killing just a man but not his ideas.

A lot of things happen during these chapters, however, the event that catches attention the most is when a stranger phones Mr. Woods and tells him Biko was dead. At first, Woods does not believe it but eventually he comes to realize that it was true.

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