The Legacy Of Apartheid Still Hangs Heavily Over South Africa

The Legacy Of Apartheid Still Hangs Heavily Over South Africa

Although the horror of apartheid has passed away there still the trail

of problems left after the horror. The problems, which have been the

heartache of south, Africans is Aid's, which is partly because of

South Africa and partly because of black males. The others are

poverty, unemployment, crime violence and gang warfare. I personally

agree with the statements because although in theory it has gone the

aftermath is still clear to be seen today.

The problems, which South Africans still face today are health

problems, there are 60% of blacks living below the poverty line

compared with only 3% whites who are quoted as having a 'affluent'

lifestyle. The main concern for South Africa and other world charity

organisation is the fact that 5million people from a population of

45million have Aids. The government weren't much help as they refused

to provide anti-retroviral drugs to infected, this has angered many

organisations that believe that this number could have been

significantly lower if the government would have sent help to those

who need it. This is only one of the problems South Africa face.

Another main problem that South Africa face is crime. Money really

made crime levels rise or in South Africa's case the lack of money

made the levels of crime rise the expected loss that south Africa lost

during the apartheid period and when the sanctions were placed was

about $27billions, the lack of investment made unemployment levels

rise and the people without jobs turned to crime as a means of

surviving. In the past 4 years battles for supremacy between ANC and

other poli...

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is very good and spent a lot of money on HIV prevention when in fact

it is because of UN involvement that they have been successful in

tackling with the problem of HIV/Aids.

In my opinion the legacy of apartheid still very much hangs over South

Africa. Although the government has begun improving the evidence is

still there to see that it will be along time before South Africa can

achieve its target of being a multi cultural country and a stable

economical state. The levels of crime, unemployment, and aids disaster

still over shadow the glory of the end of apartheid all these problems

will have to drastically improve to help South Africa regain any

chance of becoming stable and a fair nation to all races. So to sum up

I believe that apartheid has pasted but its burden on South Africa

still lives on today.