The South African Apartheid, instituted in 1948 by the country’s Afrikaner National Party, was legalized segregation on the basis of race, and is a system comparable to the segregation of African Americans in the United States. Non-whites - including blacks, Indians, and people of color in general- were prohibited from engaging in any activities specific to whites and prohibited from engaging in interracial marriages, receiving higher education, and obtaining certain jobs. The National Party’s classification of “race” was loosely based on physical appearance and lineage. White individuals were superficially defined as being “obviously white'' on the basis of their “habits, education and speech as well as deportment and demeanor”; an analogous sort of definition existed for all “races." The Apartheid system mimicked the Soviet Union in that all blacks and natives were to carry passbooks containing fingerprints, photos, and other forms of identification. In 1951 the country was broken up into “Bantu homelands” or districts to which certain races of individuals would be herded and allocated certain civil rights. Early on, resistance to the derogatory and racist Apartheid Nationals mounted. The African National Congress, the South African Communist Party, The Congress of South African Trade Unions, women, and select individuals such as Nelson Mandela, act as but a few examples of both active and passive resistance to the Apartheid which ultimately led to its downfall and the ushering in of a new era of cooperation amongst all South African peoples.
The African National Committee, first established in 1912, campaigned on a platform of unity for all Africans for the sake of civil rights and liberties. After the rise to power o...
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Apartheid was a system of segregation implemented in 1948 by the Afrikaner National Party in South Africa. It put into laws the dissociation of races that had been practiced in the area since the Cape Colony's founding in 1652 by the Dutch East India Company. This system served as the basis for white domination in South Africa for forty-six years until its abolition in 1994. Apartheid's abolition was brought on by resistance movements and an unstable economy and prompted the election of South America's first black president.
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The difference is that this segregation was not just between whites and blacks; it was among whites, and all the other races. The races were broken up into four categories: whites, Africans, Asians, and coloreds. How the people lived in South Africa depended on the race the person was. Everything was affected from education, employment, medical care and even where that person lived depended on their race. The apartheid was established to keep up white dominance in this country.
Mandela went on to study law, and found his way into the African National Congress, or, the ANC. He quickly made a
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Source A gives a view on the South African governments control over its people and racial discrimination. It is a biased view and makes the South African government seem cruel and racist. It states that the governments "politics are determined by the colour a persons skin". As this is a statement it gives the impression that it is a fact and by giving this impression it also communicates the idea that the South African government IS racist, rather than the South African government COULD be racist. This comes as no real surprise as the advert has been paid for by the ANC (African National Congress), who are a very anti - South African government organization.
The End of Apartheid - HistoryWiz South Africa. (n.d.). HistoryWiz: for students, teachers and lovers of history. Retrieved February 19, 2011, from http://www.historywiz.org/end.htm
The racial segregation in South Africa determined where a person could live, work and even attend school. It even determined who could vote and who could not; only whites were allowed to cast their ballots. Tribal homelands called Bantustans were set aside for a place where blacks could live since the majority of the country was reserved for whites (The Book of Knowledge). The apartheid in South Africa led to the formation of the African National Congress (ANC) and the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) (“Nelson Mandela”). The ANC was a national liberation movement established in 1912 to unite black citizens and effect social, political, and economic change (“F.W. de Klerk”). The ANC adopted the ANCYL’s plan to achieve full citizenship for all South Africans through boycotts, strikes, civil disobediences, and other nonviolent methods (“Nelson Mandela”). In the 1950s, Mandela was arrested and imprisoned multiple times due to his involvement in the ANC. The Congress was outlawed in 1960 and went underground. While in hiding, Mandela became the leader in the struggle for majority rule (“Nelson Mandela (1918-)”).
...annah Evelyn. 4Women in the South African Parliament: From Resistance to Governance. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Web.
the ban on the ANC, the PAC and the SACP, he announced the release of
South Africa gained its independence from England in 1934. However, the South African indigenous communities continued to be oppressed under the control of white minority citizens. Mandela was introduced to the African National Congress (ANC) in 1942 and officially became a member in 1944. The ANC was formed to unite the African people and bring social and economic change to Africa (African National Congress, 2011). Embracing the energy and ideas youth can convey when faced with turmoil, Mandela spearheaded the ANCYL (African National Congress Youth League) in 1944 (History.com, 2013). The ANCYL was designed to take a very visible but non-violent approach against racism and segregation in a full-fledged effort to achieve equal citizenship for all South Africans. Mandela envisioned this could be done through boycotts, strikes, civil dis...
on him or her. Unless it was stamped on their pass, they were not allowed to
Apartheid consisted of a set of unequal laws that favored the whites (“History of South Africa in the apartheid era”). The Race Classification Act, which divided everyone into four race groups, whites, blacks, coloreds, and Indians were the first of many major laws (Evans, 8). Hundreds of thousands of black South Africans were forced to leave their homes and move into special reservations called “homelands” or Bantustans that were set up for them (Evans, 8). There were twenty-three million blacks and they were divided into nine tribal groups, Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, North and South Sotho, Venda, Tsonga, Swansi, and South Ndebele, and each group were moved into a separate homeland (Evans, 8). Another major law was the Groups Area Act, which secluded the twenty-three million blacks to 14 percent of land, leaving 86 percent of the land for the 4.8 million (Evans, 9). Under apartheid laws a minority ...
John Dugard, Nicholas Haysom and Gilbert Marcus. (1992).The Last Years of Apartheid: Civil Liberties in South Africa. New York: Ford Foundation