...What explains the adaptation of the 1948 Apartheid law in South Africa? South Africa’s Apartheid was a political system founded in racial segregation. The National Party, the only governing party between the years 1948 to 1994, committed itself to oppressing the country’s people through racial legislation. What factor explains the adaptation of the Apartheid law in 1948? An Afrikaner (southern African ethnic group) minority ruled the population, enacting Apartheid once white supremacist leaders and racial segregation had become a central aspect of the South African policy after World War II. The Afrikaners had also formed some Broderbund organizations, developing and imposing ideology that helped in pushing the Apartheid agenda. Such ideology was officially administered in South Africa through the mandate of the League of Nations, later revoked in 1966 via the United Nations 2145 Resolutions (Barbarin, Oscar & Linda 2013, 221). The Great Depression 1929 resulted in a bad economic turn in South Africa, and saw many Afrikaner whites move to the city in search of jobs from previously settled rural areas. However, due to high taxes, native South African tribesmen had to work in the mines resulting in an increase in the number of black people in the manual labor workforce. Racial segregation itself began during the colonial period under the rule of the Dutch empire until the British appropriated the Cape of Good Hope in 1795 (Clark, Nancy...
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...Sartenejas, 19 de Mayo de 2015 Universidad Simon Bolivar Henger Maizo. Carnet 10-10408 ”What were you dreaming?” by Nadine Gordimer Apartheid and how it affected people As history moves on, in different countries and even whole continents, movements and regimes have been formed where groups of people take the power so that they can abuse, denigrate, ignore and even disparage and underestimate other people base on the colour of their skin or their religion. One of these systems of government, and probably one of the most influential of modern times, was the Apartheid which ruled over South Africa since 1948 to 1994. “a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by the National Party (NP), the governing party from 1948 to 1994”2 Although Apartheid was legally established from 1948, the racism in South Africa has its roots since the twentieth century as the Dutch descendants initiated racial separation as an idea for the country’s development. When Apartheid started being applied as a law, racial segregation and abuse had its boom because black, Indian, Arabic and coloured population lost their right to participate in elections and to take charge of public office jobs, all these places were occupied by the whites, who represented only the 21% of the entire South African population. This way the white people was responsible of leaving the highest percentage of people unrepresented in the Parliament and also unable to speak up for the injustice...
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...What is Apartheid? Apartheid is a system, where they did split the white and the black people. Did black children get an education? Some of them got one if they were lucky, but most of the black children didn’t get one. What did the ANC do? ANC tried to unite all the colours against the apartheid government. Who got killed? The police killed peaceful demonstrators. Who got imprisoned? The black people got imprisoned, if they didn’t carry their pass. When did the Apartheid surrender? The Apartheid surrendered in the 1991s Who were the bad ones? Well, it is difficult to say. Because the white people in South Africa thought the black people were the bad ones. What do you think about it? What was the order of the people? I think it is horrible, it is sad. We are all human. What does stand ANC for? ANC stands for African National Congress. What happened if a black and a white got married? They could get imprisoned. What could happen if they didn’t carry a pass? If they didn’t carry a pass, the police could throw them in prison. Who were ANC? They were a political organization. What happened in the 1980s? In the 1980s almost all countries of the world decided not to support the apartheid government anymore. Who got the best education? The white children/people got the best education. What could the white do, that the black couldn’t? The Whites were allowed to stay in their home, but all other races were forced to move to separate towns outside...
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...young South African who didn’t experience the Apartheid regime. Protest music is one of the main contributors to the ending of apartheid. Resistance music is a topic I have largely researched and can now say that I have an understanding of what its impact was on the apartheid period. The apartheid era had non-white communities isolated and sidelined which lead to the outburst of protest music which evoked emotions such as anger and frustration in many black communities hence my argument argues that protest music truly did have an effect of the apartheid era. Protest music was what brought awareness to people who didn’t have understanding of what was happening in the apartheid...
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...The Apartheid in South Africa: An Informative Speech on the effects of Apartheid Victoria Druehl University of Connecticut The Apartheid in South Africa: An Informative Speech on the effects of Apartheid Introduction I. With South Africa being the first country in the world to officially legalize racism, and 30,000 deaths later, you think most people would be informed of such a mass murder that had taken place not many years ago. II. Apartheid, Afrikaans literal meaning of “Separateness or apartness,” was a system of legal, racial segregation laws enforced by the National Party government of South Africa. III. It is important to know what the people of that country have gone through to get to where they are today. IV. I would like to inform everyone on what apartheid is, what laws were implemented and enforced and the effects it had on the country. TRANSITION: In high school history we were taught about Spanish explorers, the Holocaust, the Roman Empire, Napoleon, and Jim Crow laws- but we were never taught about the apartheid in South Africa? Body I. How could we be so clueless to, quite possibly, the most influential event in the lives of many South Africans? A. In 1948, right after WWII, apartheid as an official policy was first introduced. It was an expansion of existing policies combined with a new system of institutionalized racism and white domination. 1. At the time, Whites had complete political control over all other racial groups...
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...Born in 1918, Nelson Mandela was present for the start and the end of Apartheid. Apartheid was a time when the minority group of whites had power over South Africa. After stealing land from the natives, the whites set up the unjust government called Apartheid. During Apartheid people were separated by race and blacks were forced into black homelands. These homelands were extremely poor communities where the blacks had to live. During the day they were forced into labor work for the whites, at night they were forbidden from anywhere except their homeland communities. Two key people who greatly impacted the end of Apartheid were Steven Biko and Nelson Mandela. Both men were activists for ending Apartheid and creating equal rights for both races....
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...After the introduction of the Apartheid in 1948, the segregation, government corruption, and economic distress in South Africa was far more severe than in the United States. Research Question: What were the specific political and social factors that lead to the declaration of the first Apartheid legislation in 1948 and how did they compare to those in the United States? Research Question Expanded: What economic, political and social factors were present in South Africa and the United States during the 1940s-1960s; what the differences were present in South Africa’s Apartheid protests and the Civil Rights Movement that were happening in North America during 1954-1968. Introduction A. Opening Sentence: Introduce the topic of the paper with the Apartheid and the anti-Apartheid movements, with specific dates, which will guide the...
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...South Africa during the apartheid era. “Once Upon A Time” is a short story that shows how apartheid brought people mistrust and a need to stereotype everyone in an effort to supposedly protect themselves. District 9 critiques the apartheid through the manipulation of sci-fi conventions and visual codes whereas “Once Upon A Time” manipulates the conventions of a narrative, fairytale and irony. Both texts critique apartheid. District 9 strongly comments on the apartheid that was occurring in Johannesburg at the time and represents this through the use of human VS alien. The apartheid in South Africa was a period of time when segregation was enforced, often resulting in evictions of thousands of coloured South Africans from their homes. In District 9, clear parallels to these events take place. The aliens in the movie are forcibly contained within an area known as District 9. In the film, the aliens are the ones who are being discriminated against by the whole human race. The aliens are called prawns. They are far from beautiful, they are bottom feeders, they are addicted to cat food, they live on rubbish dumps; they are presented as grotesque savages and scavengers. By presenting the aliens to us, not as attractive, high creatures, by making them look like half-human and half insect, the film constantly trips us up by making the racist gaze our gaze. Through the use of the sci-fi conventions, we sympathise the aliens, and we realise that what the humans are doing is...
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...to which apartheid was economically unsustainable. The research will be based on sources with reference to the effect international divestments and economic sanctions placed on South Africa, as well as the internal structure of the apartheid system and it’s impact on the South African economy. Apartheid was set up in a way where black labour was used to exploit the resources of the country, which included mineral resources such as diamonds, gold, coal and iron ore; as well as agricultural resources such as fruits, grains and maize. To give legal effect to this exploitation of labour, the apartheid system created a job reservation system to favour the white minority and to subject...
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...Apartheid: Through the Looking Glass of South Africa Social Movements Professor Steven Sherman Final Paper By: Jourdan Kennis Through the looking glass of history there have been many instances where a people of a certain race or cultural background are discriminated against and forced to fight for their freedom. In the 1940’s there was World War II; where a ruler who had preyed on the weaknesses of its’ people, the country was given false hope by a new political up and comer with a secret agenda to get its’ people out of an economic depression. Hitler had the whole country convinced it was the fault of Jewish and Christian people amongst many others who were victimized and ostracized against. This, among many other things lead to the anti-sematic views that Germany had taken upon themselves at the time. Many died; others were tortured as a result. It seems history keeps repeating it no matter where the problem lands. The Deep South had its’ segregation which brought upon a ton of civil rights violations of many of our countries citizens,...
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...South America’s Apartheid Policy of 1948 Assignment 06 Myles Addison South Africa’s apartheid policy is the name of the racial institution that was created in 1948 by South Africa’s white population that was dominated by the Boers. The Boers kept a separation from all black African, Asian, and European people. The term, which means “apartness,” reflected a violently repressive policy, which was designed to make sure that whites, who only comprised 20% of the nation's population, would continue to exercise control over the country. When the apartheid policy was passed in 1948, it resulted in a “mini apartheid” being created for other ethnic groups and a “grand apartheid” for only the black Africans. What this did was relocate black Africans to homeland areas where they were considered laborers for the white population. Even though the policy officially began in 1948, racial discrimination practices were already deeply rooted in South Africa. Dutch colonizers started creating regulations and laws that segregated blacks and whites. This was being done as early as 1788. These practices continued even after 1795 when the British occupation ended. This is what led to the assignment of the black Africans homelands. When the enactment of the apartheid policy in 1948, led by a Dr. D.F. Malan, who was “the” main mastermind of the apartheid, racial laws were put into place and touched every facet of social living, including the ban of marriages between inter-racial couples, and...
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...The Nelson Mandela quote depicts apartheid as the root cause for oppression of blacks in South Africa. During this time in South Africa, apartheid plagued the country. Although many people fought to bring down Apartheid, Nelson Mandela played a major role in actually ending Apartheid. After spending years in jail for opposing the government on apartheid, he gave a speech. Durning Mandela's 1962 speech on the South African apartheid he stated, "But there comes a time, as it came in my life, when a man is denied the right to live a normal life, when he can only live the life of an outlaw because the Government has so decreed to use the law to impose a state of outlawry upon him." In Mandela's speech he talks about what it was like to live his...
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...Introduction This informational piece explores how segregation in the US was different than apartheid in South Africa. There are some things that are similar about segregation and apartheid, but this piece will focus on the things that are different. This piece will discuss the differences in when segregation and apartheid started. It will also discuss why they started. If the reader is wondering how protesters in the US protested segregation, this piece will explain that. It will also explain how protesters in South Africa protested against apartheid. The writer hopes you enjoy reading this piece. Also, the writer hopes you learn a few things by reading it. When did segregation start? Before segregation, there was slavery in the United States. The Civil War was fought...
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...journey during the nineteen eighties and early nineties to non-racial democracy. Through firsthand experiences of many South Africans including the dismantler of apartheid and former president, Nelson Mandela, Carlin helps the reader understand what Mandela and many others had to endure to make equality a reality for black South Africans. Carlin’s focus on the destruction of apartheid is coupled with the 1995 Rugby World Cup held in South Africa, more specifically South Africa’s Springboks and how Mandela used them to unite the Afrikaners and the black South Africans. The text proposes that the finals of that World Cup is what symbolizes South Africa finally coming together as a unified, strengthened state. Carlin demonstrates that South Africa was able to rid itself of apartheid through the efforts of its most important leader ever, Nelson Mandela as well as South Africa’s citizens and their countries national sport. The basis of “Playing the Enemy” is to not only focus on the politics that went into dismantling apartheid but also the underlying people, events and political instruments that were used in the process. John Carlin, an author and journalist from England has focused much of his works on issues involving South Africa. This book is not meant to be viewed as a Nelson Mandela biography but as an insight as to what was involved in taking one of the most divided states in the world to one that could be viewed with some sort of closeness from the outside. It should not be...
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...December 2008 The Apartheid in South Africa Imagine if you were denied a job because of your race. You could not go here or there whenever you wanted, or you were not allowed to receive healthcare, or were punished severely for what you thought was a petty crime. You would go to receive a marriage license but you would hear, “Sorry, interracial marriages aren’t allowed hear.” These were a few of the difficulties people of the nonwhite (black) population faced in South Africa during the apartheid. The apartheid was an unyielding governmental procedure of segregation and discrimination of the nonwhite population for the country of South Africa (Apartheid…). This paper will give the history of the country of South Africa and the development of the government which started the apartheid. Segregation of the South African population will be described by giving information and examples about the different social classes and job opportunities individuals were allowed to have based on their race. The intent of the paper is to show the hardships that the South African nonwhites faced and their struggles to become equal during the vast period of governmentally enforced segregation. The apartheid began with the enactment of the apartheid laws in 1948 and lasted until 1991 (Apartheid in…). During the time in which the apartheid laws were in effect the country was divided and the majority of the population was poverty stricken. In the paper a description of the Apartheid during the forty-three...
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