Political Activism
He attended the SASO terrorism trial of nine Black Consciousness movement leaders as a defence witness in March 1976 where he expounded on theories expressed in The Eye of the Needle. In November 1976 Dr Turner received a Humboldt Fellowship, one of the world’s leading academic awards from Heidelberg University, but after months of negotiating with the Minister of Justice was refused permission to travel to Germany. Turner was also involved with the re-emerging black trade union movement of the 1970s, although the relationship was fraught at times.
In September 1977 Steve Biko was murdered by the apartheid police.
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