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Apartheid
Apartheid was a system of forced segregation implemented by the National Party of South Africa. Apartheid was enforced from 1948 until 1994, although remains of the apartheid system still influence South African politics and society today. Questions about apartheid can be found here.
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In what ways did Africans resist apartheid?
by many ways, for example:
- Violence
- Bombings
- Burning pass books
- Getting them all arrested
- Protests
- Destroying police stations
- Bombing railways
- Blowing up army recruit centres
- and many other things
Who worked to strengthen apartheid?
Nelson Mandela, who became the president of South Africa, was a major supported of apartheid.
Why did the Apartheid get started in South Africa?
The term Apartheid was introduced during the 1948 as part of the election campaign by DF Malan's Herenigde Nasionale Party(HNP - 'Reunited National Party'). But racial segregation had been in force for many decades in South Africa. In hindsight, there is something of an inevitability in the way the country developed its extreme policies. When the Union of South Africa was formed on 31 May 1910, Afrikaner Nationalists were given a relatively free hand to reorganize the country's franchise according to existing standards of the now-incorporated Boer republics, the Zuid Afrikaansche Repulick (ZAR - South African Republic or Transvaal) and Orange Free State. Non-Whites in the Cape Colony had some representation, but this would prove to be short-lived.
This however only says HOW Apartheid began. The true meaning was because the white South Africans found it difficult to teach their technology to the local Black population and had to enforce a system so that they didn't mix with them. At the time (1948) around the world Black people (even in America) were considered second class, but here it lastes until 1994 because the white population were a minority ironically. If Apartheid did end (which is did) they feared that the uneducated black population would rush into towns and cities and not know how to properly function in those types of daily conditions. For example they tried lighting fires in their newly bought apartments as a method to keep warm. Obviously this didn't work. This has actually happened.
Is Confucianism still practiced today?
Yes, it is. Today, Confucianism is mainly practiced in China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Vietnam. There are over six million adherents of Confucianism.
What effects did apartheid have on racial equality in south Africa?
The ruling National Party did not exclude black South Africans from education entirely. The "Bantu Education Act" was a piece of official legislation that governed how and what black people were taught during Apartheid. This now infamous piece of legislation was introduced by the "Architect of Apartheid", Hendrik F. Verwoerd.
This act ensured that black people were directed into the unskilled labour market and ensured that black people were not educated enough (in most cases) that they would be able to form non-violent plans (i.e. plans of diplomacy) with which to fight their oppressors. This in effect dumbed down and demonised most of South Africa's population in the eyes of ordinary white South Africans.
What is accurate concerning the policy of apartheid in the Republic of a South Africa?
it had its roots in european imperialism in africa
Who was treated the harshest under German rule?
During the Holocaust Hitler and his followers wanted to rid the world of people they believe unworthy of life. They treated people with harshness that was beyond barbaric and immensely cruel. The Jews were treated especially harsh. Many were forced into concentration camps where they were starved, used as slaves, and murdered. Some were forced into gas chambers, some into furnaces where they were burned alive, and some were shot and killed with not even an ounce of mercy. Babies were often tossed into the air and shot as if it were a sport. The Holocaust was definitely a harsh and brutal slaughter.
Who were Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk What were their roles in ending apartheid in South Africa?
They brought KFC and Water Malone to the land
How would you use apartheid in a sentence?
Apartheid was a system of racial segregation enforced by the national party of south Africa between 1948 and 1994, under which the rights of majority black inhabitants werecurtailed and minority ruel by whites was maintained.
Did people safe during apartheid?
Yes, South Africa practiced capital punishment under apartheid, although it was suspended (never to be resumed) in 1989, after F W de Klerk assumed the presidency. A few bantustans continued to practice it into 1991. Legal executions in South Africa was reserved for the gravest of offenses which could have been treated equally in other western countries, although starting in the 1960s, several executions took place which were considered to be political, i.e. as a deterrent for other opponents of the regime. Nelson Mandela was expected to receive a death sentence in the Rivonia Trial in 1964 for treason and sabotage, although ultimately the judge chose life imprisonment instead. At least one of the victims of a "political" execution was John Frederick Harris in 1965, who had bombed the Johannesburg Railway Station the year before, killing one person and injuring 23.
Mainly in the 1980s (but also in Soweto in the 1970s, for example), South Africans and foreign nationals were extrajudicially killed by the government, more or less deliberately, without due process, in order to silence opposition and deter others. Black resistance groups also perpetrated extrajudicial executions (read necklacing), and sometimes blacks were paid to do the government's deeds and thus lay the blame on opposition groups, so a certain gray area exists. White anti-government groups (such as the AWB) and individuals also committed atrocities (such as the murder of Chris Hani) which could well be labeled "executions", depending upon your definition.
What was apartheid what factors lead to its end?
Why did Apartheid end? A combination of events is a reasonable answer. Internal opposition to Apartheid had grown strongly and many areas of South African cities, inhabited by black South Africans, had become ungovernable. There was also considerable labour unrest and strikes were common. There were also occasional bomb attacks. The economy of the country was being affected by both events at home and a growing campaign of international political, sporting, cultural, economic and financial sanctions. In the face of this, the National Party under President FW De Klerk did the sensible thing and repealed Apartheid laws and started negotiations to transform South Africa into a democratic state.
The Apartheid laws had been gradually repealed from the early 1980s, one by one. Resistance to the complete dismantling of Apartheid remained, however, due to white fears of a communist takeover of the country - the ANC had aligned itself with the African communist movements as well as the Soviet Union and China. Furthermore, violence committed by the black liberation movements, both in the townships as well as terror attacks in urban and farming centres also categorised them as terrorist movements, which few governments will ever negotiate with. By the end of the decade, though, the only truly, universally enforced Apartheid laws were those directly linked to limiting political power - for the reasons mentioned above. When the Berlin Wall came down and the 'communist threat' appeared to evaporate, the primary motivation for maintaining what remained of the Apartheid system also disappeared (not to mention the withdrawal of covert support by the US government, which had used white South Africa as a bulwark against communism on the subcontinent). While conservative elements in the country still wanted to maintain Apartheid to protect their cultural dominance, these were in the minority. In a referendum held by De Klerk in 1992, two thirds of whites voted in favour of negotiating a new, non-racial dispensation. In this sense, 'whites did stop Apartheid' all be it under economic and other pressure.
How were people classified under apartheid?
White or black. (there was brown too, for those between white and brown, so that the Indians can get accommodated. As you may guess, whites were at the top, the brown ppl at the middle, and black ppl at the bottom. This explains why blacks in South Africa tend to hate Indians b/c they received better treatment (comparatively) than the blacks. For some reason, they still seem to adore whites( this bit is my opinion).
How did apartheid spread democracy?
Most South Africa's mainly blacks were not aloud to vote and so there was no democracy in South Africa
The anti apartheid movement changed the apartheid system and in return lead the country towards a democracy
How did apartheid start in South Africa?
The term Apartheid was introduced during the 1948 as part of the election campaign by DF Malan's Herenigde Nasionale Party(HNP - 'Reunited National Party'). But racial segregation had been in force for many decades in South Africa. In hindsight, there is something of an inevitability in the way the country developed its extreme policies. When the Union of South Africa was formed on 31 May 1910, Afrikaner Nationalists were given a relatively free hand to reorganize the country's franchise according to existing standards of the now-incorporated Boer republics, the Zuid Afrikaansche Repulick (ZAR - South African Republic or Transvaal) and Orange Free State. Non-Whites in the Cape Colony had some representation, but this would prove to be short-lived.
What did Helen Suzman do in the apartheid?
Helen Suzman was a prominent anti-apartheid activist and politician in South Africa, known for her unwavering opposition to the apartheid regime. As a member of the House of Assembly from 1953 to 1974, she was the only woman in Parliament for much of that time and used her platform to advocate for racial equality and human rights. Suzman was instrumental in raising international awareness about the injustices of apartheid and was a vocal critic of the government's policies. Her efforts significantly contributed to the eventual dismantling of apartheid and the establishment of a democratic South Africa.
What is the antonyms and synonyms of apartheid?
ageism, animosity, antipathy, apartheid, aversion, bad opinion, bias, bigotry, chauvinism, contemptuousness, detriment, discrimination, dissociation, disgust, dislike, displeasure, disrelish, enmity, foregone conclusion, illiberality, injustice, jaundiced eye, mindset, misjudgment, narrow-mindedness, one-sidedness, partiality, pique, preconceived notion, preconception, prejudgment, prepossession, racism, repugnance, revulsion, sexism, slant, spleen, tilt, twist, umbrage, unfairness, warp, xenophobia
Are there not dictionaries and thesauri online? Or an old fashioned paper copy somewhere on an ignored and dusty shelf?
Why did Nelson Mandela fight against the apartheid?
Because he belonged to the group that was strongly disadvantaged by this system.
Apartheid set whites and blacks apart in society, strongly benefitting the whites (in giving them all the real and legal power) and strongly obstructing life and blocking chances for wealth, power and success for blacks.
And Nelson happened to be born black in South Africa. So there you have a strong personal motive to fight Apartheid.
On top of that , Apartheid did not meet his own moral criteria of how a humane society should be (as it didn't meet the moral criteria of thousands, millions of other people around the globe anymore in the 70ies, 80ies seen the worldwide protests and embargos).
Nelson Mandela Apartheid had begun to end from the year 1990 under the rule of President FW de Klerk. However Apartheid was officially over in 1994 and the first democratically elected president of the country in 1994 was President Nelson Mandela.
