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steve biko 1. Biko was born in [|King Williams Town], in the [|Eastern Cape] province of [|South Africa] 2.He was initially involved with the multiracial [|National Union of South African Students], but after he became convinced that Black, [|Indian] and [|Coloured] students needed an organization of their own, he helped found the [|South African Students' Organisation] (SASO) in 1968, and was elected its first president. 3.In 1972 Biko became honorary president of the [|Black People's Convention]. 4.He was [|banned] during the height of apartheid in March 1973, meaning that he was not allowed to speak to more than one person at a time, was restricted to certain areas, and could not make speeches in public. 5.When Biko was banned, his movement within the country was restricted to the Eastern Cape, where he was born. the apartheid 1.**Apartheid** (meaning //separateness// in [|Afrikaans], [|cognate] to [|English] //apart// and //[|-hood]//) was a system of legalized [|racial segregation] enforced by the [|National Party] (NP) [|South African] government between 1948 and 1994. 2. Apartheid was dismantled in a series of negotiations from 1990 to 1993, culminating in [|elections in 1994], the first in South Africa with [|universal suffrage], but the legacies of apartheid still shape South African politics and society. 3.Under Apartheid, South African blacks were stripped of their [|citizenship], legally becoming citizens of one of ten, theoretically [|sovereign], //[|bantustans]// (homelands). 4.The government created the homelands out of the territory of Black Reserves founded during the [|British Empire] period. 5.These reserves were akin to the US [|Indian Reservation], Canadian [|First Nations reserves], or [|Australian aboriginal reserves]. Many black South Africans, however, never resided in these "homelands Nelson Mandela 1.**Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela** IPA : [|[xolíɬaɬa mandéːla]] (born [|18 July] [|1918]) is a former [|President] of [|South Africa], the first to be elected in [|fully representative] democratic elections. 2.Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-[|apartheid] activist and leader of the [|African National Congress] and its armed wing [|Umkhonto we Sizwe]. 3.He spent 27 years in prison, much of it on [|Robben Island], on convictions for crimes that included sabotage committed while he spearheaded the struggle against apartheid. Among opponents of apartheid in South Africa and internationally, 4.he became a symbol of freedom and equality, while 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.[|[1]] 5.Following his release from prison on [|February 11], [|1990], his switch to a policy of reconciliation and negotiation helped lead the transition to multi-racial democracy in South Africa. Since the end of apartheid, he has been widely praised, even by former opponents.