Apartheid in South Africa 2
Born into the Royal Family of the Tembu in Transkei. For involvement in student politics, he was expelled from Fort Haire University, but obtained a law degree by correspondence. He established the first African law practice in Johannesburg along with his partner Oliver Tambo. He co-founded the ANC with Youth League with Tambo and Walter Sisulu and eventually became National President. In 1952, he was arrested for the Defiance Apartheid is the political policy of racial segregation. In Afrikaans, it means apartness, and the South African National Party pioneered it in 1948 when it came to power. Not only did apartheid separate whites from non-whites; it also segregated the Blacks (Africans) from the Coloureds (Indians, Asians). All things such as jobs, schools, railway stations beaches, park benches, public toilets and even parliament. Apartheid also prevented blacks from living in white areas. This brought about the hated "pass laws". These laws required any non-white to carry a pass on him or her. Unless it was stamped on their pass, they were not allowed to stay in a white area for more than 72 hours. Despite the fact that the whites only make up just over 14% of the population, they own 86.3% of the land. However, it must
A Group Areas Act, from 1948, set aside most of the country for use by the whites. Smaller and less desirable areas called 'bantustans' were set aside for blacks. These areas are over crowded, in sanitary, and most of all, unhygienic. Soweto, a large bantustan, is the size of Brighton, yet has over two million people in it. Born in Holland, Verwoerd was known as one of the 'architects of apartheid' because he created the idea of bantustan and bantu education. In 1946, he became vice-chairman of the National Party in Transval and then Minister of Native and Bantu Administration in 1950. He became Prime Minister in 1958 and was assassinated eight years later. From 1948 to 1990, South Africa had an appalling record with regards to human rights. Not only was Apartheid in use, but blacks were being killed on streets, playground and even in their homes and police stations. The government organized and condoned this behavior. They breached Article of the declaration of human rights by banning groups such as the ANC. Article was breached by the police when they would arrest people for no reason. Finally Article was breached simply because the South African Government, army and police force did not treat blacks equally and fairly like human beings. Blacks were told to regard these desolate and unfertile areas as their 'homelands'. Over half of the black South African population lived, not in these batustans, but in the white areas of the country for cheap labor. Nonwhites had to live in shantytowns, while the whites lived comfortably. The system of Apartheid began to deteriorate in the mid to late 1980's. In 1985, mixed ma
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