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Apartheid Explained

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Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first democratically elected president in 1994 it was the official end of white minority rule otherwise known as apartheid apartheid you've heard of it what exactly was it on Francesca fiorentini and this is AJ + apartheid is it Afrikaans word that means separateness it was a system of racial segregation that governed South Africa for nearly 50 Sears is specifically aimed to protect the  of the white South Africans over non-whites in every aspect of life but it didn't just appear out of thin air during the colonial grand for the country between the Dutch descended afrikaners and the British the right fade to black South Africans were sidelined so when apartheid was officially made Lund 1948 by the Afrikaner LED National Party it was a continuation of Injustice is already happening believed that South Africa was their god-given Homeland and at the white race was Superior the black majority was there for seen as a threat there were a hundred and Forty-Eight apartheid laws all time Bass Tracker fuse public facilities were separated for unknown what you and marriages between whites and other races were banned people were classified into four racial categories white black Indian and colored people of mixed race they were all separated into different residential areas were divided into 10 so-called Homeland based on tribal groups homelands were real overcrowded and lack jobs for sunglasses work as migrant labourers wages were low and it was a go for workers to strike apartheid was also economically motivated achieve Workforce was needed particularly to work in the country's gold mind powerful mining magnets had a huge steak and apartheid policy since our profits depended on keeping black low outside their designated homelands non-whites had no political rights since they were not technically citizens they couldn't vote education also divided the states that have a separate education system for blacks the received a fraction finding that white school did mandatory education ended at age 13 and was structured to funnel blacks into medial migrant labor exploitation by Design needless to say there was resistance studies insane laws protest play by black students and youth and where met with severe depression out of the struggles team leaders like Nelson Mandela Oliver Tambo and Walter sisulu who would help bring an eventual end to apartheid apartheid was could you imagine living under it Ernie similarly unjust laws that still exist where you live We wish your comments below peace reconciliation

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