The Steve Biko Story
Jeremy Prescott SpeakerNet Sponsor
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- Hobby
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- History
- Updated:
- 30th October 2020
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The Steve Biko Story tells the pivotal role Steve played in the emergence of South Africa from apartheid to its current status as The Rainbow Nation. Due to Mandela’s imprisonment Biko became a central focus for change until his imprisonment, torture and death at the age of 30. His friendship with the journalist Donald Woods is covered, leading to the film “Cry Freedom”, the release of Mandela from prison, the first free election, the Peace and Reconciliation Commission, and the iconic symbol of Mandela wearing a Springbok jersey presenting the Rugby World Cup to Francois Pienaar. The presentation concludes with S Africa once again winning the Rugby World Cup in 2019 with the trophy being handed to their Captain Siya Kolisi.
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Jeremy Prescott served for 26 years as an Army Officer seeing operational service in Dhofar, Oman and 4 tours in Northern Ireland. After retiring from the Army he was appointed as CEO of a charity covering Leics and Rutland which supported rural communities. In this role he facilitated 6 successful bids to the Lottery for over £1m. In 2013 in order to help communities in their own commemoration of the 100th anniversary of WW1 he developed the “Sacrifice and Remembrance” project delivering presentations on that theme - www.sacrificeandremembrance.com. After retiring from the charity after 18 years he has further developed this project and now presents on 14 different topics. To date these talks have been given in over 450 venues to 16,000 people. As a result of the Covid - 19 crisis he has been offering these presentations via Zoom across the country. He does these presentations entirely on a voluntary basis but encourages donations to Combat Stress - The Veterans Mental Health Charity. To date he has raised over £26,000 for Combat Stress. He now lives in Southsea Hants
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- The Sinking of the Laconia
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- Britain’s Secret War - Dhofar Oman
- Op Overlord - D Day, The Normandy Landings
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