End of Apartheid

The Apartheid took place mostly within the country of South Africa along with a few minor independent city states such as Peoria and other countries in the vicinity of South Africa. It also took place internationally.

How the Apartheid fell was a chain link of events. The early stages of the demise began around the early 1900s when new laws were placed out and riots broke out in the streets. When the Apartheid outlawed and banned the African National Congress (ANC) as well as sent many of its leaders to prison by convicting them of treason, including Nelson Mandela, the black community of South Africa were outraged. After the ban was placed out, the remaining anti-Apartheid fled to other surrounding independent African countries including Nambia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. There, they continued to set up camps and fight the Apartheid. Back in South Africa, protesting increased during the middle years of the apartheid after Nelson Mandela is imprisoned again after being suspected to heave being involved in a bombing. This time he is imprisoned for life.

Around the 1970s, due to South Africa’s internal contradictions with its economy and people, the Apartheid began its slow demise. Soon the united nation began to take notice of South Africa and began to get involved. With South Africa now in the spot light, Prime Minister P.W Botha left office due to his belief that he had failed to keep order in the country. After the reassignment of P.W Botha, F.W Klerk had taken office. The final stage of the demise of the Apartheid began when Klerk lifted the ban off the ANC and other African political parties. The last blow was the release of Nelson Mandela after 27 years in prison. Now that South Africa’s hope was out of prison he continued to ...

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...tution and a new democratic government by the end of 1990. The change of the government was a big transformation that needed a lot of work. As some political analyst said, “that trying to move from apartheid to democracy was like changing the engines of a Boeing 747 in mid-air.”

The transformation from apartheid to democracy however went smooth. The democracy was negotiated with many compromises on both sides. From 1990 to 1994, was a period that was marked “by appalling unforeseen violence. Many people predicted that the country would come to a civil war because of how tense the atmosphere in the country. And finally they reached a settlement and the first democratic election flowing took place in April 1994.During the process many people had died, from the very begging of the negotiations in mid 1990 to elections in April 1994, 14000 died and 22000 were injured.