Apartheid and South African Human Rights Violations
• All-white National Party comes to power in 1948
• Apartheid (separate or apart) was their main agenda
• A doctrine of white supremacy and separate development
• Non-whites South Africans could no longer:
• Marry outside of their own race
• Choose where to live
• Travel where they liked
• The whites made up 15% of the population yet owned 87% of the land
• Non-whites were forced to live on Bantustans
• Enforced by the army and police force
• Apartheid (separate or apart) was their main agenda
• A doctrine of white supremacy and separate development
• Non-whites South Africans could no longer:
• Marry outside of their own race
• Choose where to live
• Travel where they liked
• The whites made up 15% of the population yet owned 87% of the land
• Non-whites were forced to live on Bantustans
• Enforced by the army and police force
Summary: In 1948 the white national party came to power. They had one idea in mind "apartheid". Blacks pretty much had no more say in anything. The white population in South Africa was a minority compared to the black population. Blacks ended up living in slums called " Bantustans".
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Quote: "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
-Nelson Mandela |
Question: If apartheid hadn't happened, how would the way South Africa runs be different today?
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