Research Paper On Apartheid In South Africa

The Apartheid in South Africa is one of the best examples when it comes to discrimination and human rights. The blacks in South Africa were basically denied of their human rights and treated very terribly. The segregation was awful and the blacks were denied most everything. They were denied education, land, involvement in the government, healthcare, they even were denied entry into the city at some points. Blacks were beaten and tortured for no reason and the circumstances were awful for them. What happened to human rights? Why were the black South Africans denied the right to live like everyone else? How did the country change after Nelsen Mandela was elected president? The goal in conducting this research is to answer these questions and more.

Just a little background, my family lives in South Africa and so I speak from experience when talking about what people’s views are of the country. Since I talk about it so much, these are the responses I usually get. What comes to mind for a lot of people is beautiful scenery, diamond mines, rich, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, beautiful mountains. I also get a lot of “do lions and giraffes live in your parent’s back yard?” I have even had some people not know that South Africa is even a country. Those people just thought it was the southern half of Africa and that everyone who resides there lives in mud huts. There are a lot of different views of the country and the one that I have found that the one thing that most people either forget or just don’t talk about is apartheid. Apartheid is the biggest event in history that shaped the future of the South African people. While most of those things that were listed above are true, we tend to forget about one of the most important things to ever happen in the country. That is what this research memo is about, one of the greatest things that shaped the country of South