...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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...South Africa became a British Colony in 1806 and gained its independence within the British Empire in 1910. (White, Dymond, Chacko, & Bradshaw, 2015) The white Europeans that moved into the area quickly began enforcing their European supremacy beliefs on the region even though they were the minority. In 1948, the National Party gained power in South Africa. It was an all-white European government that immediately began enforcing existing policies of racial segregation under a system of legislation called apartheid, which translates to “apartness”. Under apartheid, non-white South Africans, which were the majority of the population, were forced to live in separate areas from white Europeans, to use separate public facilities, along with limited contact between the two groups. Despite strong and consistent opposition to apartheid, its laws remained in effect for more than 30 years. Racial segregation and white European supremacy had become central aspects of South African policy long before apartheid began with the controversial 1913 Land Act. This marked the beginning of territorial segregation by forcing black Africans to live in reserves and making it illegal for them to work as sharecroppers. Opponents of the Land Act formed the South African National Native Congress, which would later become the African National Congress (ANC). (O'meara, 1977) The Great Depression and World War II brought increasing economic troubles to South Africa which spurred the government to...
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...Megan Webb Parker Tankersley & Miesha Williams Dr. Zahariadis PSC 266 11 March 2013 The UN and the Apartheid The apartheid was a system of institutionalized racism present in South Africa that lasted from 1948, with the election of Daniel Francois Malan, to 1994, with the election of Nelson Mandela. The roots of the apartheid go as far back as the European settlers, and they encountered numerous problems with the native Africans when the Dutch and English settlers began to move inland from Cape Town and encountered the Xhosa’s. The ensuing disputes over farm land evolved into Xhosa Wars, which lasted from nearly one-hundred years from 1779 to 1878. At the same time, the English and the Dutch, also known as “Boers”, warred against each other, leading the Boers to establish their own countries of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. The British then would go on to fight other African tribes, and the most prominent was known as the Zulu. To put it simply, South Africa has a long, extensive history of racial discrimination. It is far from surprising that it would have one of the most extensive and infamous racial segregation policies in modern history, but the apartheid eventually grew out of this history of racial divides and wars. Although it may be true that racism was part of their history, in reality it also became their national shame. In addition, South Africa had one of the most comprehensive instances of de jure segregation. It began when the Afrikaans (Boer) National...
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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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...Apartheid has been identified as a direct cause of mental health issues in South Africa. A case study on the Organization for Appropriate Social Services in South Africa (OASSSA) recognized the group’s greatest achievement as the establishment of the link between apartheid and mental health. OASSSA was a group of progressive, anti-apartheid mental health workers who first came together to discuss the land act because they “felt both angry and disenchanted at…the idea of discussing family dynamics and therapy within a homeland setting which [was] responsible for the break-up of thousands of families” (Hayes 2000, 328). Through their years working against the apartheid regime, OASSSA built a case as to why the social conditions produced by apartheid...
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...analysis of apartheid on womens lives in s.a Strategists in the National Party invented apartheid as a means to cement their control over the economic and social system. Initially, aim of the apartheid was to maintain white domination while extending racial separation. Starting in the 60's, a plan of ``Grand Apartheid'' was executed, emphasizing territorial separation and police repression. With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalized. Race laws touched every aspect of social life, including a prohibition of marriage between non-whites and whites, and the sanctioning of ``white-only'' jobs. In 1950, the Population Registration Act required that all South Africans be racially classified into one of three categories: white, black (African), or colored (of mixed decent). The coloured category included major subgroups of Indians and Asians. Classification into these categories was based on appearance, social acceptance, and descent. THE EFFECT OF APARTHEID ON WOMEN IN RURAL AREAS African women in South Africa, being both black and female, suffered a triple oppression. As Africans—which for the most part defines their class position—they had to contend with the restrictive and repressive apartheid legislation, which ensures alien control over all facets of their lives. In addition, as women, they had to contend with the fact that they are regarded as dependants and as inferior to men; as such, they are even further discriminated against...
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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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...Jim vs. Apartheid Differences amongst people has been in existence for a very long time. The time of segregation of black people in America is proof of this differences. During this time black people have been regarded as second class civilans. The laws that were created during this time had the purpose of restricting black people from achieve anything in life and these laws were called Jim Crow Laws. Those laws were mainly used in the southern and border states of the United States. But segregation did not only happen in the US, it has occurred in countries all over the world, places like South Africa. In South Africa, there was a system of legislation, called apartheid. This system, like the Jim Crow Laws, made racial segregation possible in South Africa, the majority of black people in the country was force to live in poor areas that were different from the minority of whites in the country. These two policies are similar in many ways but have differences as well. To effectively compare and contrast these two systems I will use their access to education, the right to vote, and the effects they had on blacks in both countries. Both policies affected the access to education for black people. There was a separation in which black children and white children had their education in different schools that were strictly for their race. In both countries the black schools did not have the proper funding to supply their students with the right materials while...
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... South Africa South Africa, a country on the southern tip of Africa, has an area of 471,442sq mi and a population of 44,188,000. It is predominately a black ethnicity with 76% of the population. Although South Africa is Africa's most developed country, most of the black people - rural and urban - are poor, with low standards of living. South Africa has vital natural resources such as diamonds and gold and is rich in other resources such as coal, chromite, copper, iron ore, manga- nese, platinum, phosphate rock, silver, uranium and vanadium (South Africa, 2008). It is obvious that South Africa can sustain their economy through these resources. Through the centuries South Africa has faced difficult time since the Dutch came in 1600’s, in 1700 they started importing slaves establishing the dominance of white over non- whites in the region. The non-whites faced discrimination for years under apartheid and political corruption ran by the whites. Today things look better for the people of South Africa, but they still have many obstacles to overcome. Although South Africa has overcome many travesties throughout the years, their reasonably new democracy faces more with complex political parties, recent struggles with homelessness, and what is being done about this situation. Firstly, apartheid is an “Afrikaans word literally meaning apartness,” refers to the policy of racial segregation and its concomitant economic and political discrimination that was adopted by the South African...
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...The Long Awaited End to Apartheid Avery Wannamaker Mr. Bharucha CHY4U June 5th, 2015 Tragedy and oppression have dominated much of history. It has led to the suffering of many people, and has seen the domination of one group of people over another. These tragic times are often remembered as the darkest in history because they not only saw humanity at its lowest moral point, but they prevented us from flourishing and progressing as nations and a global community. Just over two decades ago, the social situation in South Africa known as Apartheid was one of the greatest social tyrannies in history. It saw the entire division of a nation long after racial segregation had been abolished in developed countries such as the United States. However, like all things that cause stagnation, an end has to come and in the 1990s the apartheid system saw its last days thanks to the efforts of a number of people and groups. Contrary to popular belief, Nelson Mandela was not the most important influence in bringing an end to Apartheid. Mandela’s work though vital, would have been meaningless without the influences of F.W. de Klerk, the fall of communism, and the African National Congress (ANC). Firstly, Nelson Mandela is then only name associated with the apartheid regime and its end. We often overlook the works of unsung heroes such as F.W. de Klerk, without whom apartheid would not have ended. De Klerk was vital in officially ending apartheid, reinstating the ANC’s role and releasing...
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...Tiffany Ellis AC1110567 GE350 - World Geography Assignment 6_06 1/7/11 South Africa has had a history of treating people of African descent as inferior despite them being the majority. During the 19th century, British settlers tried to restrict the movement of black people in and around areas occupied by whites and controlled by the British. The South Africa Act of 1910 gave whites complete political control over all races. During World War II, Jan Smut led the United Party and began to loosen up on the segregation laws but the Sauer Commission was established in 1947 to focus on the relocation of blacks into urban areas and the negative effects it would have on white businesses and jobs. In the election of 1948, Smuts's United Party lost to the main Afrikaner nationalist party, the Reunited National Party, which joined the Afrikaner Party. Together they became the National Party. Racial segregation in South Africa became legal in 1948 when the National Party began to officially enforce apartheid and the rights of the majority, non-white people were diminished. The National Party then sorted people into racial groups of black, white colored, or Indian so residential areas could be segregated, sometimes by force. Several apartheid laws were passed since the inception of apartheid in 1948 until 1970. The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949 prohibited interracial marriages and the Immorality Act of 1950 made interracial sex a crime. The Population Registration...
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...South Africa is considered an upper middle income country in terms of the World Bank tables but according to Wilson (2011:2) as well as Cornell and Wilson (2012:1) poverty in South Africa, despite its high income ranking, is widespread and severe. The only possible explanation for the contradiction in South Africa’s characteristics would be the deep levels of inequality experienced within the country (Wilson 2011: 2). This essay is going to prove, through looking at what poverty and inequality entail, how it originated in South Africa as well as evaluating statistical evidence, that inequality is indeed a more pressing socio-economic challenge than poverty is in contemporary South Africa. According to Laderchi, Saith and Stewart (2007:1) most policies now a days are somehow related to the impact of poverty on the country but in order for these policies to make a difference it is important to know what we are aiming at and therefore a clear understanding of what poverty and inequality is as well as where these terms originated from is essential for success. Laderchi, Saith and Stewart (2007) supply us with multiple approaches to poverty including the monetary approach, capabilities approach, social exclusion approach as well as participatory approach. Universally the monetary approach is dominantly accepted and used. This approach describes poverty as being a shortfall below a minimum level of resources or poverty line which is assessed through whether the individual can meet...
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...relevant to me as a 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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...Since the abolishment of apartheid in 1994 South Africa has been in era of attempting to rectify racial inequality. White anti-racism is one of the issues that has presented itself in this attempt at achieving equality posing both possibilities and challenges. The issues of whiteness and white privilege have emerged as one of the greatest challenges in this proves of restoration. This essay will first provide a brief historical background to white anti-racism in post apartheid South Africa as well as introducing the concept of whiteness and white privilege. In order to demonstrate the challenges and possibilities relating to whiteness a few ideological discourses will be discussed. The findings of the research done by Wale and Foster will also...
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...elite group, and who could become a citizen rather than a subject. In the 17th century the Dutch and the British colonized the previously unexplored South Africa in a drive for modernity. The rapid English domination of the Dutch offspring (known as Boers or Afrikaners) resulted...
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