Nelson Mandela and Steven Biko

Nelson Mandela and Steven Biko are the two most important and influential people in South Africa's long and harsh battle for racial justice. Mandela, born almost 30 years before Biko, spent a lifetime fighting for the freedom of blacks in South Africa, for 25 years, as a political prisoner. Through his struggles, he came to embody the struggle South African blacks were going through against government enforced discrimination. Through his courage of 25 years of imprisonment, he drew …

…their country. The people looked up to them with highest esteem, which was much deserved. Even though it was difficult, they fought through the toughest adversity and persecution, Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, and Biko, tortured and killed at an age so young. The achievements of these men will always be remembered by South Africa and the world. Without Nelson Mandela and Steven Biko, the struggle for South Africa may never have been achieved.