Africa is a continent rich human and natural resources, yet a majority of its people lives in poverty (Carr). Located on the tip of southern Africa is the country of South Africa. South Africa, later known as the Republic of South Africa, is a country where the people repeatedly experienced injustice and corruption from their respective governments, the apartheid and the African National Congress. The apartheid system consists of all-white government officials, while the African National Congress consists of people of color. Despite the differences in government, the outcome of the two had similar adverse effects on its people. Both governments shared a similar theme within its governing system: exploitation of the country’s abundant resources and people. As a result, the South African people experienced a series of problems, such as injustice, corruption, and an increased crime rate. The apartheid and the ANC both participated in corrupt and unjust practices that resulted in the ill-treatment of the people, increased poverty and unemployment rates, and high levels of criminal activities. The apartheid and the ANC are responsible for the adversities that were mainly caused by injustice, corruption, and high level crime rates.
The apartheid system demonstrated unjust practices that prevented the people of South Africa from their natural rights. The apartheid successfully restricted and subjugated the majority (mostly black Africans) and instilled an all-white government. The apartheid was established after World War II and the Great Depression brought economic depression that convinced the government to strengthening its policies of racial segregation (Apartheid). The National Party, an all-white party, gained political power in ...
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Racism is never bound by culture, language, or even continents. It is an evil that spans the globe. The history of South Africa is of a culturally divided and fragmented society. The architects of apartheid took advantage of this splintered social order to create an institutionalized separation, dehumanization and enslavement of a people through laws and customs. However, freedom can be achieved when one voice has the courage to stand up against thousands, and inspires others to stand up for what is right and just. The ending of apartheid in South Africa allows people everywhere to never again accept a different definition of freedom depending on a classification imposed by another. South Africa has forged a bright future from the chains of the darkness of the heart – the darkness known as apartheid.
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As the title infers this essay is an explanation of the event of Apartheid and Separate Development, but to understand this fully some brief history on Apartheid is required, hence this paragraph will be the introduction to the events that transpired before the formation of Separate Development. The idea of Apartheid was born because of the fact that white supremacy was already instituted into South African policy because of the strong European influence. The Land Act of 1913 was what instigated the momentum of Apartheid however. It forced the Africans to live on plots of land that were undesirable and less than twenty percent of the total land even though they were clearly the majority, where the eighty percent was given to the white minority. Eventually restrictions became worse such as, forcing the Africans to carry identity documents authorizing their occurrence in areas that were otherwise restricted, not allowing non-whites to obtain certain jobs, not allowing any contact between whites and non-whites, and eventually forbidding participation by non-whites in government. The paragraphs that follow will outline the emergence of Separate Development, who was responsible, what Separate Development is, and why it happened.
The majority of the South African people are unemployed or else the breadwinner of the family looses the job or dies. In that situation the family has nobody to provide them with the basic needs of life. The children have no money to go to school and that alone increases the rate of poverty as it is known to everybody that if u is uneducated, you have no good chances of getting a well paying job that will sustain you for the rest of your life. In those situations people turn to crime. They believe that it is the only way that will get food on their table, clothes on their back and roofs over their heads. They also believe that the poor must get their needs from the rich, in that way they target the rich people. The increase in the rate of poverty means the increase in the rate of crime.
Conceptualizing Corruption in South Africa Conceptualizing Corruption in South Africa Amr Taha El Baba Lebanese American University SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To persuade my audience that corruption could cripple the progress in South African societies. Crime and corruption are not relevant to the degree of poverty present in a country as some of you might think. Corruption is a social phenomenon that every society deals with, regardless of the level of development in the country. What makes corruption a dangerous social phenomenon is its ability to adapt to the conditions present in any country.
The apartheid was a very traumatic time for blacks in South Africa. Apartheid is the act of literally separating the races, whites and non-whites, and in 1948 the apartheid was now legal, and government enforced. The South African police began forcing relocations for black South Africans into tribal lines, which decreased their political influence and created white supremacy. After relocating the black South Africans, this gave whites around eighty percent of the land within South Africa. Jonathan Jansen, and Nick Taylor state “The population is roughly 78 percent black, 10 percent white, 9 percent colored, and l...