Apartheid 2
Apartheid, the Afrikaans word for "apartness" was the system used in South Africa from the years 1948 to 1994. During these years the nearly 31.5 million blacks in South Africa were treated cruelly and without respect. They were given no representation in the National party even though they made up most of the country. It was not until 1994 when a black man name Nelson Mandela came to power in the South Africa congress. Once elected Mandela removed all racist laws against blacks and all other minorities. Nelson Mandela is one of the great leaders of our time. A hero whose lifelong strugal to the fight against Apartheid in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his release from prison in 1990, Mandela has been at the center of a struggle against the white minority in South Africa. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on July 18, 1918. After receiving an education at a local mission school, he was sent to Healdtown, a secondary school. He then enrolled at the University of Fort Hare for a Bachelor of Arts Degree where he was elected onto the Student's Representative Council. He was expelled from college, for joining in a boycott. Mandela then went to Johann
-Separate Representation of Colored Voters Act 1956 -Removed franchise from coloreds. - Mines & Works Act 1911 & 1926 -Imposed color ban on certain jobs, a white salary was to be higher than a black at all times. -Natives (Urban Areas) Act 1923 -Provided for residential segregation in cities. The blacks had to carry special papers to be allowed to stay in the cities. Through my research I have come to understand the story Waiting For The Rain a lot better. I now know that the apartheid system was on a much larger scale than just the characters in the book. The story may be a fiction but now after doing all my research if I had read the book I would have totally believed it. esburg where he completed his BA by correspondence and studied for his LLB. He entered politics while studying in Johannesburg by joining the African National Congress in 1942. It is difficult to pick just one or two significant event in apartheid history, so I would like to just briefly mention some laws that were made. The White South Africa government came up with many unfair laws to keep the black people of the country segregated, these are just a few of the most unfair ones. I definitely have to say that Nelson Mandella had a totally positive influence on everyone in
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