Hardships And Injustices In Steve Bdela's No Easy Walk To Freedom

hardships and injustices upon the African people” (Nelson Mandela as cited in No Easy Walk to Freedom, 351). Thusly, the important lessons that people drew from this interaction was that although there was a chance for equality through peaceful discussion there was also no room for weakness within the negotiations.

Another important individual who helped shaped South Africa today was Steve Biko. Steve Biko was the leader of African Students to form the South African Students Organization (SASO) in 1968 in order to unit all nonwhites against their racist oppressors (Sackeyfio-Lenoch, 7/21). With this push in student in educated non-white resistance in universities where before most of the opposition had been led by groups with white leaders such as the National Union of South African Students. It was this separation of races by Biko can be seen as a brilliant political move that altered the shape of opposition within the school system as now students were getting involved in the discussion

Another situation that aided in getting educated youths involved in the movements was the global atmosphere at the time during the latter part of the 1980s when governments were collapsing in Eastern Europe as people pushed for the end of socialism, which striking resembled the “unmentioned history happening right in our backyard” (Poplak, 296), as the same types of demonstrations were occurring in the streets of Johannesburg and other major metropolitan areas throughout South Africa. It was this single individual’s drive that led to the education reform movements throughout the later life of Apartheid as now younger students as well as the better educated became a part of the progressive movement that would elect Mandela as the first President of the Republic of South