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**by Kimberly** Steve Biko

**Stephen Bantu Biko** (18 Decamber 1946 – 12 septmber 1977\} was a noted anti-apaertheid activist in south Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the black consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population. Since his death in police custody, he has been called a martyr of the urban black population.

The Apartheid **Apartheid** (meaning //separateness// in Afrikaans,cognate to //apart// and //-hood//) was a system of legalized racial segregation enforced by the National (NP) South African government between 1948 and 1994 It arose from a history of settler rule and Dutch and British Colonialism, which became policies of separation after South Africa gained self-governance as a dominion within the British Empire and were expanded and formalised into a system of legitimised racism and white nationalism after 1948. Apartheid was dismantled in a series of negotiations from 1990 to 1993, culminating in election in 1994, the first in South Africa with universal suffage, but the legacies of apartheid still shape South African politics and society. **Nelson Mandela** is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. 2. "Why does what happened in South Africa concern us in New Zealand?"
 * Nelson Mandela

3. What is "Godzone"? 4. Who is the author?