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Facts about Steve Biko!!![[image:http://www.irr.org.uk/image/faces/steve_biko.jpg width="99" height="135" align="right"]]
** Steve Biko was born on 18 December 1946!!! **
 * **He was born just months before the racist National Party, which introduced apartheid in South Africa, came to power.**
 * **He became involved in politics while studying medicine at Natal University and was one of the founders (and first president) of the all-black South African Students' Organisation (SASO) in 1969.**
 * **Died september 12 1977**
 * **His encouragement of black self-reliance and his support for black institutions made him a popular figure.**

Facts about the aparthied!!!
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 * **The aparthied means separateness.**
 * **In the Republic of South Africa a rigid policy of segregation of the nonwhite population.**
 * ** An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites. **

** Facts about Nelson Mandela!!! **

 * **He got released from prison on February 11, 1990.**
 * **He spent 27 years in prison, much of it on Robben Is.**
 * **Among opponents of apartheid in South Africa and internationally, he became a symbol of freedom and equality.**
 * **The apartheid government and nations sympathetic to it condemned him and the ANC as communists and terrorists and the United States still lists him as a terrorist.**
 * ** He was the 11th president of South Africa. **

Why does what happened in South Africa concern us in New Zealand?


 * Because they have oil mines, diamonds and will increase or decrease our market of the items they export based on several issues i.e. war etc!!!**

** What is "Godzone"? **
**God’s Own Country, often abbreviated to Godzone or less often Godzown, is a phrase that has been used for more than 120 years by New Zealanders to describe their homeland. It has subsequently been adopted by some other countries, notably Australia, but this has declined as the phrase has become increasingly associated with New Zealand. In recent years the phrase has been adopted as a tourist slogan by the Kerala state government in India!!!**

=** Who is the author? **=

Bill Nagelkerke!!!