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Response to Apartheid in South Africa

Responses to Aparthied in South Africa
My Group researched apartheid in South Africa from the 1960’s to the 1980’s. This was a easy assignment I felt because it was done on the computer and sent to a blog and we didn’t have to hand write anything and hand it in or anything. I also learned a lot about how African Americans were treated during apartheid in the 1960’s and 1980’s. Another thing I learned about apartheid in South Africa was the amount of land taking over by whites and how whites (Afrikaners) toke advantage of blacks.
First, I liked how this was done on the computer and we had time to do it in class in the computer lab. We also could do it at home and turn it in right away after we are done so we don’t have to turn it in later when its due we can turn it in and get it out of the way. Another reason why it is good that we did it on computer is we could share information and links through e-mail. I really liked the idea of having the assignment on the blog or computer.
One thing new that I learned about apartheid in South Africa during the 1960s and 1980s is the way whites (Afrikaners) treated blacks in South Africa with land and human rights were horrible in my opinion. Afrikaners like to take control of all South African land and use it for farming, retrieving diamonds and gold. Then when Africans would ask for land back or say something the Afrikaners would give them land back but it would be a pieces of Bantustans. This meant a piece of bad land, hardly farmable or useable.
Another thing I learned was the amount of land and things these Afrikaners would take away from blacks in South Africa. These Afrikaners would take almost 75% of the useable land for farming, retrieving diamonds and gold and the other 25% was given back to the Africa or just still being used and it would be useless or not enough land for there needs and there population of people. In conclusion, I liked doing this blog because it was a short assignment but I learned a lot for researching on my own with a 3 partners and doing the assignment over the computer and through e-mail.

Liz's Reflection (continued)

The blacks and whites are no DIFFERENT from one another but in this time the whites were blinded by what a government had created and supported. The whites saw and did what they believed was right and in the ended wounded themselves from the truth of the matter. I do believe that in order to move on we must first except the past for the past and forgive those who have wronged or hurt us. For if we do not stop this hate, then it will continue and more wrongs and pain will be caused. The world has endured enough of our differences and arguments. It is time to stop.

We are the same in this world, we are all created equal and as equals we are one. We are no different from the person who sits or stands next to us, but we are unique in are own ways that define us as individuals and as citizens of the United States. I feel pain and sorrow for those who have had to endure such losses in these matters. I believe that one person can make a DIFFERENCE, but what DIFFERENCE will that person choose to make? That question is yet unanswered.

Liz's Reflection

The apartheid in South Africa to me is so important because it shows and outlines that in history those who are different from each other are treated as such in that way. The people in South Africa were separated from each other because of the color of there skin and the family in which they were born into. Why? Is it so, to punish an innocent because of the color or family they were born into because of a rule or a person’s personal interests or ideas. Why must people see how they choose to see and not think of others around them? We live in a world that has been fighting against one another since the beginning of creation. From caveman to people, from people to emperors, From Emperors to kings and from kings to madmen. Our world has been lead by people who have fought with bloodshed and hatred toward a race or a group of people who have tried and fought for a DIFFERENCE.

In the time of the apartheid in South Africa it was no different; they fought for freedom and endured the humiliation, pain and mistreatment that the white’s inflicted upon them. They went through punishment for crimes that they did not commit. They were treated and handled as slaves and paid as so to. They were the ones who in the end lost more then anything the whites could have ever lost, but the one thing that they gained above everything else was a lifetime of freedom.

This event in history made me reflect on everything that I have learned this year in history. The events from the fall of Rome and Europe, to the death and sickness of the plague, to the marching of WW1 and the bloodshed of WW2, these plagues and battles to me were fought with misunderstanding and the search for power. The event that will remain with me forever will be the holocaust, not for the types of punishment that the Jews had to endure but the pain that crosses my mind at the thought of the amount of pain and suffering that they had to withstand. These events are so much connected to one another because of the fighting between the differences of races, an idea’s of a group of people and the madness and power that one person wanted to seek. I will forever remember what I have learned this year and the events I learned about.

The Apartheid in South Africa to me means so much because the pain and the idea’s that these two different races had to endure and set forth from one another. These races were too apart to realize the damage that they were causing to the ones they should have been embracing as friends. The blacks and whites

Maegan's Reflection [rough draft]

Before this project, I had only watched a movie about the Apartheid, and that movie, was on Disney channel. Meaning, I knew nothing but the highlighted notes about the Apartheid. Now, I know about the Apartheid and about the horrible discrimination that African American's had to go through. People in South Africa, had their human rights taken away, because of the color of their skin, and the fact that they were not from European decent. Everyone was catagorized into groups that signified what powers and privlidges you had. Also, people had to move out of their homes becuase of the Apartheid.

First off, the color of your skin determined whether you could go into

I thought that I knew a lot about apartheid in South Africa, but I was wrong. For instance, a lot of the people in South Africa were discriminated against just because they were not of European descent. Also, everyone in South Africa was classified into a certain racial group. Lastly, during the 1960’s to early 1980’s, people were forced to move their homes into different areas of South Africa.

First, many people in south Africa were discriminated against just because they were not of European descent. The people that were of European descent in South Africa did not want the people that weren’t, to have any voting rights. Since most of the people that weren’t of European descent barely had any voting rights to start off, It was very unfair for them. All of this started in 1948, and it finally ended from a series of negotiations that lasted from 1990 to 1993.


Next, everyone in South Africa was classified into a certain racial category. The main ones there were black, white, colored, and Asian. The whites had the most power and made the rules in South Africa. The whites basically discriminated against everyone else. They were not able to vote or go to the same school systems as the whites.


Lastly, during the 1960’s to the 1980’s people were forced to move their group areas to different areas. This was known as resettlement. During resettlement, over three and a half million people were forced to move. Some of the people that were forced to move included labor tenants on white farms, inhabitants of black spots, and surplus people. Resettlement was a sad and terrible event.



So in conclusion, people in South Africa were discriminated against because they were not of European descent, people were classified into certain racial categories, and during the 1960’s to the early 1980’s people were forced to move their homes into different areas of South Africa. After completing this research, I can now see how terrible apartheid is.



By scott martin

My Reflection

Apartheid has a different meaning to everyone. For some, it may stir anger, for others, it may stir sadness, and some people don't even care to help these people that have their rights taken away, and they are seen as inhuman. Why? Who knows? They only reason that they are discriminated is because either their skin color, religion, beliefs, and the way they look. For example, the holocaust, the Nazis made children's books, that near the end cover of the book, it told the kids what the difference between what a "true blood, Aryan" race and a Jew looked like. Thats just ludicrous! Why would you teach children how to be racist?! That just doesn't make any sense!

Apartheid is an extremely bad event that still continues on today. It is similar to the Holocaust. Like the Holocaust, African Americans were discriminated because their skin color is black, and not white, and to the Caucasians, this was seen as: "They are different than we are! Their skin is black! They can't possibly be humans!" So they were treated differently. Why, no, how can you treat someone differently only because they look different? Everyone in the world looks different from one another, the only exception would be twins. But still even with skin color, everyone has a different shade, no one has exactly the same to skin colors.

Apartheid affects me badly because it makes me think. It makes me think about the evil people that started this whole thing in the first place. People make people follow their beliefs, because anyone that doesn't follow them is now "in their way" and that person is destroyed.

For example, the Ku Klux Klan strongly dislikes people of the African American race. Why? Because they are different. But, in reality, African Americans are no different than Asians, Caucasians, Europeans, or anyone else in the world. The major differences are: Skin color, religions (in some cases), and beliefs. The leader of the Ku Klux Klan was recently set free from jail for "good behavior." What the heck is wrong with this people? HES THE LEADER OF THE KU KLUX KLAN AND YOU LET HIM OUT EARLY FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR?!?!?! Thats just a mistake! Why would you set free the leader of such a terrible organization? Now that I don't understand.

~Steve Cottle

REFLECTION

REFLECTION

The apartheid in south Africa was such a horrible event. the apartheid wus bad because its was all about colored segregation. i think this was bad because i beleive in equel rights.the events that made this suck a bad event was segregation and colored rights.


these laws showed racial segregation because they put all arfican citizans into different catigories. they were white colored and black. you were put into theis catigories based on your race and or ethnic backround. i think that this was bad and not nesisary. these laws were pointless because you cant really descriminate and hate someone just beacuse of something as stupid of their skin color.

my feelings about this time period are very strongly tward the black and colored segregation. i feel this way because i feel that it is not right at all that they put these people through this just beacause of there natinal race.


by matt garafolo

m.Gill's Reflection

--The Apartheid in South Africa tells us that human rights are still being taken away and not acknowledged by other human beings that expect to have these rights secure in their own lives. It shows that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that was issued by the United Nations will always be broken. The leaders of countries will always try to overrule these rights with national sovereignty. The nation will say that it is up to their government how things are run within that nation and that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will not take a place of having high authority over how the country is run because it was not passed by that specific nation. The apartheid was like a much less severe Holocaust. As in the Holocaust people were legally persecuted when they had done nothing wrong. In the apartheid blacks were forced to move out of their homes and live in certain areas that were generally poverty stricken to some extent which can be compared to the ghettos that Jews were forced to live in during the Holocaust. Although many blacks were killed during this event, there were nowhere near as many killed as there were during the Holocaust, and blacks were not forced into concentration camps, death camps or labor camps. During the Holocaust the Nazi's goal was to completely eliminate Jews, but in the Apartheid the government's goal was only to make black citizens socially, politically and economically inferior to whites.

--The Apartheid definitely denied the idea of humanism. The South African government did not seem to acknowledge that black individuals mattered or even really existed as individuals. They were seen as a single group of people that all needed to be stopped from getting too much influence or power in any way in South Africa. They were not even given the chance to succeed or even given opportunity based on their intelligence or talents. They were all viewed as the same and as inferior. Looking back on this event and how terrible it was strengthens the concept of humanism in our minds though because we see how terrible and wrong the government was to treat those people as one group of inferior people instead of how they as an individual deserved to be treated. The Apartheid itself denied the idea of humanism, but the memory of it emphasizes its importance.

--The government during the apartheid was unjust and terrible to be prejudice against black citizens and take their rights without them doing anything illegal or wrong. They were very close minded and did not listen to any reasoning or opposition against their bad and unfair decisions, they just killed or imprisoned anyone who stood up against the new racist laws. I definitely pity the victims of this terrible time in history. They had done nothing to deserve the treatment they recieved. I have great respect for those who were brave enough to stand up against the government for the rights of themselves and their fellow black citizens with the knowledge that they could be killed.

--I fully support peacekeeping efforts by the United Nations in soveriegn countries. I believe that every country should have the right to mostly control what goes on within its borders, but when it comes to human rights there should be guidelines for what is acceptable treatment of fellow human beings. If a nation's government is not respecting the rights of a group of people the United Nations should definitely interfere and try to reverse that because no group of people deserves to have their rights taken away as long as they have done nothing that is against the law or taken someone else's human rights from them. Everyone deserves equal treatment and opportunity to become successful. During the Apartheid the United Nations should have interfered with the laws of the country that segregated and degraded the black community. At the point where national sovereignty is unjustly discriminating against people and taking away rights the government should no longer be allowed to continue the way it is unchecked.

--If the United Nations were to step into the sovereignty of the U.S. I probably would still support it, or at least not have a problem with it. It would be hypocritical of me to say that I would support the United Nations interfering in other countries when they make unjust laws that take away or limit people's rights and not still support it if they think there is something wrong with laws in the U.S. We are no different from any other country and have just as much possibility of making mistakes and making unfair laws as any other country and therefore deserve the same treatment as other nations by the United Nations. If there were unjust laws here in the U.S. I would want someone to do something about it, because I strongly believe that everyone deserves the same treatment and chance to succeed and if there was any doubt in anyone's mind that that was happening then I think it should be at least checked out.

-----m.Gill

The Start of Aparthied

Apartheid started in 1948 when the first added amendments of the apartheid law came into rule in South Africa. With this new rule, it started the ongoing battle of rights of racial discrimination between the whites and blacks. This discrimination was an aspect of everyday life. It was rapped into every part of everyday, including jobs of high positions as well as good earning manageable positions in the small shops and stores. Blacks were treated as slaves and paid like them as well. The laws prohibited against black and white relationships as well as marriage and contact between black and white families. The 1950 Population Registration Act required the population of South Africa to be divided into three racial categories: white, black (African), and colored (of mixed descent). The organization in charge of this racial classification was the Department of Home Affairs. Those who did not abide by the classification laws were dealt with harshly. These hash ways lasted through the 1980s and ended on a finial note from 1990-1994 when the negations against whites and blacks had started to effect others outside of South Africa as well as the government on the attachment to apartheid. In 1994, apartheid finally ended and with it the abuse and scares of hurt the blacks had to endure during these times.

-Liz D, melanie,katie,megan,steve

Jamba Juicey

What happened? How could something as terrible as this happen to innocent people? The goverment was not very strong and didn't care enough for its people to really know what was going on the streets.

Stephen Biko for example was a big polical star who wasnt't hurting anyone and what did the goverment do? Killed him thougt, he was a threat, when all he was doing was giving the poor blacks hope because of there terrible situaltion.

In 1948, Apartheid started. The first amendments that was added to the apartheid law began in South Africa. With the new rule, it triggered a long battle for the right of blacks against the overpowereing whites.

Why would the people of the goverement want this to happen to there people? It is very sad. The event Aparthied in South Africa was to me a very important event because yes many people were injured or event killed because of it but I think that this event could teach us as a valublwe lesson for the future generations.

But this event has helped me understand more about the things that happened in history class this year. From the earth forming like the romans and the barbairans AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! All the way to now whith british accents and slaming desks about the Holocaust. A very, very, very, very,very...oh very interesting year. Thank you.

MODAMS

My Reflection

In reflection, the Apartheid Era in South Africa was an unfair period of racial prejudice. Much like the Holocaust, in the sense that people were hunted out and "destroyed" by separateness in their countries. This "Battle of the Races" created a racial prejudice that can still be seen today. Many people in many countries still share that racial hatred toward those who are not like them. Every day, people are ostracized for their looks, race, or strengths. It's wrong, but who can stop them? Sure, we can slow it, but prejudice will never stop. Every country must go through a time of Civil Rights in order to find their ways of exception in the world. What if the United States had never gone through a period of Civil Rights, then where would we be today with our racial prejudice?
Apartheid can be related to the Holocaust in many ways. Like mentioned above, people were hunted out and "destroyed." Rather than to be physically destroyed and put to death, racism in Apartheid was excruciatingly painful in the sense that it injured the person both physically and mentally. Yes, Apartheid did have it's fair share of casualties, one of which being Steven Biko, a great leader in Apartheid South Africa---who is now viewed as a martyr.
In conclusion, the Apartheid Era was a time of racial prejudice that ended in the election of Nelson Mandela. With Mandelas' election, South African Apartheid disappeared. In my opinion, we as a country are lucky to have gone through a Civil War, and a Civil Rights movement that didn't include searching out and ostracizing those of a different race than the one created by the "American Image." It was a period of unfairness that ultimately led to a greater good.
---Kati Cavanagh

Apartheid: Color Classification

The population of South Africa was split into four different racial groups: Black, White, Asian, and "Coloured." The "coloured" group were people of Bantu, Khoisan, and European descent (with some Maylay ancestry). The Apartheid bureaucracy employed many laws that determined who was in the "coloured" group. These laws could move out families to seperate "townships," and remove them from places that they had lived in for generations. Blacks and "coloureds" were denied the rights of voting from 1950 to 1983 (the Apartheid Era)---these continued until the abolition of Apartheid.

Bianca's Reflection

--This event tells me that human rights and the UDoHR sometimes have no effect on a country or government decision. If you think about how the government went corrupt in South Africa and created an apartheid that ultimately separated and sometimes killed people because of the color of there skin, its hard to say that the UDoHR or human rights are always taken into consideration of a citizen’s wellbeing.
--This event can be related to the holocaust because in South Africa, the coloreds and whites were separated, and the “racially pure” were given the best treatment while the other “undesirables” were put in very harsh living conditions and were sometimes killed by people who didn’t like them. Although the killing and the living conditions was better than the mass genocide of Jews and other “racially impure” that occurred during the holocaust, the South African apartheid still relates in those ways.
--In accordance to the South African apartheid, the principle of humanism being that all individuals mattered is definitely denied. If the principle of humanism was reaffirmed, the South African apartheid would not have even taken place. Nobody would be killed because of there skin color, nobody would be shoved into rundown neighborhoods of shacks because another group of people believed that someone else’s race was ethnically strange or wrong. And that’s exactly the opposite of the apartheid that took place. The coloreds were treated like they didn’t matter at all; the principle of humanism is almost irrelevant because of what happened with the apartheid. Nobody mattered but the whites.
--I feel that this apartheid that took place was absolutely wrong and it was one of the largest mistakes that other parts of the world made because of another group’s skin color. I believe someone like Nelson Mandela was a martyr and only wanted what was best for everyone, and because of what he believed, he was thrown in jail for roughly half of his life. The victims were cruelly treated as well and the perpetrators were absolutely wrong to do this. I do feel a lot of sympathy and sorrow for what happened at the apartheid and in no way should the actions of the state be justified.
--I think that peacekeeping efforts by the United Nations are highly acceptable. The United Nations works together as a group to solve issues occurring in each other’s countries. If the U.N. decided to step into our country to maybe make changes or something along those lines its okay, but farther than that, I don’t really know if it would be necessary to have them do anything farther than that. The USA is a “melting pot” of mixed nations basically, and I figure that the USA is strong enough to not need massive support right now.

------Bianca LaRocco

What was the result of this event?

When the apartheid finally ended in 1994, there were still many inequalities in South Africa. South Africa has a highly unequal dividing of income; the colored citizens recieve much less payment than white citizens, thus placing most colored people in the impoverish category. There is also a lot of land owning situations in South Africa. White citizens own eighty percent of the farming land. Because of this, many whites have been the victims of hate crime murders. People have started to believe that because of the hate crime murders that the colored people have been supposedly committing that "colored people are actually evil in nature." South Africa has been savagely torn apart by the apartheid and it holds painful long term effects even after it was officially over.

When did this event occur?

The Apartheid in South Africa started in 1948 with the separation of the whites and blacks. It dragged on throughout the 1980s and ended in 1990-1993 because of negotiations discussed by the government about the apartheid. In 1994 the apartheid in South Africa oficially ended because they held democratic elections on a non-racial basis, meaning that everyone, all white and colored adults could finally vote.

Apartheid pics

This is a picture of Steven Biko's dead body. He died in proson in King Williamstown, South Africa. After his death, he became a martyr in the eye's of black South Africans and his followers around the world.

At the end of the Apartheid, Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk worked together to diminish apartheid. For their efforts, they both won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

On March 21, 1960, black South Africans gathered at the town of Sharpeville to riot against the carrying of identity cards. As a result, the local police killed 69 and injured 186 blacks. This event later became known as the Sharpeville Massacre.

The ANC and SACP set up the Umkhonto we Sizwe, or the Spear of the Nation. This picture shows that they would sabotage government installations.

Personal Reflection

Apartheid tells that human rights are still not protected by one’s own government. Also, that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a great idea but is unenforced. This is because Apartheid is an example of a government that was not representative of the people and did not give them equal rights. It’s not until after the fact that people are senselessly killed when other countries take notice and punish the government involved. Finally, Apartheid shows that human rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are still completely ignored by some nations.
Apartheid can be related to the Holocaust because in both events innocent people were mistreated and/or put to death because of their ethnic background. Apartheid was enforced by the white South African government by taking rights away from the blacks. For example, blacks were forced into inadequate housing and only had access to a few doctors to meet their medical needs. The whites acted superior by imprisoning, torturing, and even killing blacks who protested against apartheid. The Holocaust can be related to Apartheid because the Nazis forced Jews and others deemed undesirable, such as gypsies and homosexuals to live in overcrowded ghettos with diseases. However, the Nazis went much further than the South African government by sending millions of Jews to death camps.
Apartheid denied the idea of humanism because black individuals did not matter under this system. In South Africa the blacks had no say in their rights. The rights for blacks to have a standard of living adequate for their health and well-being were taken away by the ruling of the white minority. They were forced to live in shacks with little land and had to carry passbooks that limited where they were allowed to go. Since blacks were considered unimportant, they had poor educational and job opportunities. The concept of humanism was shattered by the South African government’s discrimination against blacks on the basis of skin color. Also, they did not view them as individuals who were equal to whites.
I feel that Apartheid was an unfair system and that all the criminal perpetrators from the leadership of the country to the lowest ranking police officer or soldier should have been punished for taking part in the wrong doings. The victims have my sympathy because by having no rights, they had no say of how to live their own lives. It was unfair that the victims were unable to protect themselves against the well-armed white South Africans. Also, I feel that the South African government was totally wrong for torturing or killing blacks who protested against their rules. I pity the victims of Apartheid because they had to suffer so much during this totally unjustified event.
I believe that the United Nation’s peace keeping efforts in sovereign countries are acceptable because it puts a potentially powerful army right in the backyard of countries that have taken away the rights of their citizens. The United Nations should always try to help any sovereign nation in protecting the rights of the people. Thus, when Apartheid occurred in South Africa, the U.N. should have stepped in to protect the rights of the black people. The U.N. is welcome to step into the sovereignty of the U.S. This would be an interesting situation, since most nation members would probably choose not to join a coalition against the U.S. However, if any wrong doings are made by the U.S., we should correct them to maintain equal rights.

--- Kevin Olints
--- Group - Melissa, Kevin, Bianca

Why were these people tortured or killed?

Black South Africans were tortured or killed during Apartheid in order to stop opposition. This was a way to intimidate others to not resist the government. For example, Steven Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement was sent to prison where he was tortured until the point of death. Overall, the government wanted to keep things the way they always were and therefore used violence to stop any acts against the government. They killed and tortured the blacks in order to set an example to the other blacks that this is what would happen if they tried to resist.

Group - Melissa, Kevin, Bianca

Social Studies Reflection

The project that I have been working on is about Apartheid. Apartheid was a terrible thing in South Africa where the people who were not white were horribly discriminated against. This is different than regular racism againt one type of person becuase this dicrimination was against anyone who was not white.
I believe that people should have learned their lesson from the holocaust and realized how horrible it is to discrinmate a certain group of people. I think that Apartheid was terrible because even after people saw what happens when things get out of hand with discrimination,
they still did it. Another reason that this was ridiculous was that white people went to that country on purpose to be racist and had no reason to be doing it. During this time a lot of innocent people were beaten, arrested, or even killed just like the jews in the concentratuion camps.
Apartheid riots were always worse for the rioters because they were always the one getting arrested and beaten even if it was a silent protest. This means that the people beating them and arresting them did it out of hate and violence that the world could do without. I think that all of the violence during apartheid could have been avoided but some people did not. During Apartheid people where good leaders such as Nelson Mandela who helped to end Apartheid .
I think that Apartheid is very much like the Holocaust because there were people prejudice against other people because of their ethnicity even though they did nothing wrong. I dont think that it is possible to end racism but i do think that it is possible to end fighting and hurtting people over it. People to day should not hate one another because of their color or religon but there is always going to be those people out there who do not like someone else.
In conclusion, I think that Aparheid was horrible and should never happen again. The reason I kept referring the Holocaust to Apartheid is that they are so much alike that I would think that people would have learned their lesson but I guess I was wrong.



BY : Joe, period 3

Who was involved? Was the government leadership directing this event? Did they issue any materials similar to the Nuremburg Laws?

--The Apartheid in South Africa was clearly led by the government. There were laws that were enforced by the police made to degrade and segregate black people economically, socially and politically. These laws included the creation of "white only jobs", restrictions on where black citizens could go, and making it illegal to marry interracially. Nelson Mandela was against these laws and was a leader within the black community to help regain their rights. He was arrested in 1962 and held in jail for 28 years.

--The Apartheid began in 1948 when Daniel F. Malan became Prime Minister. He had formed the Purified Nationalist party in 1934 and was a strong believer in white superiority. He first introduced and put into action the apartheid policy. In 1954 another Prime Minister was appointed who also supported the Apartheid, J.G. Strijdom. He actually altered the balance of the senate in order to get the necessary votes to pass new apartheid laws. Strijdom was also the one that made it illegal for black citizens to vote.

Steven Biko

“The ANC, admitted to a campaign of bombings and assassinations, including the deaths of seven anti-apartheid activists killed for betraying the cause.” This here shows that no matter what cause you were fighting for during the apartheid, everyone was at fault. The people that wanted to have the Apartheid, hated the ones against them. Vice Versa. There were riots and brawls constantly leaving the dead to linger waiting for peace. South Africa was out of control, and with the killing of Steven Biko, it became worse. He was an Anti-aparteid activist, he was a peaceful protester, but was killed brutally in the arms of the police. His head had injury’s from after the police took him into costudy, meaning that he was beaten by the police. His arm was chained to a window grille and while on his way of being transported, he died. Government officials tried to cover it up saying he died of a hunger strike, but most people still think that he was overly abused and discriminated by the police, and his death must have involved the police’s abuse. It is still up in arms, but the fall out from his death was intense. Due to Biko’s celebrity status, the news of his death flooded throughout Africa quickly. More focus was now on the Apartheid than before. Articles were written in the local papers, News broadcast’s covered the story of his surroundings, and Photographers were interested in the different places where Biko had protested. Biko had a light shine down on the Apartheid and made it become aware to everyone.

- Maegan Reynolds, Liz Daegle, Melanie Odams, Steven Cottle

A Story of Truth

This movie is a rare story of truth that shows the bonds and dedication one man can show to a world of unfair rights and underjudgment. A story of Steven Biko,I encourage everyone to watch.
-Liz,melanie,steve,megan,katie

Research Questions Part VI
Who was Stephen Biko? What happened to him and how did the world react?
answer: Stephen Biko was born in South Africa in 1946. While he was a medical student at The University of Natel he then got interested in politics. In 1969 he became the president of the Soth African sutudent organazation. Unlike the ANC, Biko didn't believe in violent ways to try to get changes in south africa for the blacks. He also tried to get blacks to get themselves to think mentally they were white. This way the would undersatnd they were equal to the whites and not less than what the whites say they are. Less of a person. IN the early 1970's the SASO organization, organized strikes at the universites and celebrated blacks getting to rule in countres near south africa like Angoal and Mozambique. the south African goverment got afriad of Biko because he was so popular, he was then was put in prison and was beaten to death in 1977. After he died an uproar went off through out the black people of south africa and they all blamed the goverment.

History of the Begining of South Africa

Apartheid has its roots from the colonization of South Africa during the seventeenth century by Dutch settlers. White settlers from Holland evaded South Africa in 1652, from this began the long process of overcoming the South African kingdoms. In the 1860s, England sent a large fleet of its great army to seize control of South Africa. The Xhosa kingdom fought nine wars of resistance against the Holland colonizers and after the British army came into the war, it was only natural that the colonists take up defense against the British. The Xhosas were defeated in 1878 after 100 years of warfare against foreign invaders.
Britain suffered its first defeat by the Zulu, but after British reinforcements moved in the Zulu was wipeout by the overpowering warfare. By the 1900, the British had conquered all of the African kingdoms and controlled all of South Africa through a system of colonial government. Dutch descendents, known as boars or Afrikaners revolted against the British rule at this time and started the beginning of the Boar War. The Dutch defeated the British and both struggled in a power battle between each other that ended in the 1940s. During this time the Afrikaners National party (ANP) gained majority in the ruling of South Africa. Politicians in the ANP created apartheid as a way of racial separation while maintaining white domination. Apartheid became the system of government, through the 317 amendments to the apartheid related laws. The union of South Africa came to be with a government that was designed for the rights of white people while denying those same to the blacks.
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Research Questions Part V
9. What is the ANC? what was its purpose during the years of the apartheid?
answer: "The ANC was South Africa's first black led political party. It fought for full voting rights for South Africa"

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This is a sign that displays racism in South Africa.

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Research Questions Part IV

A. Explain who owned all the businesses and natural resources?
answer A: The whites owned all the businesses and the best land for growing and harvesting natural resources.
B. Who did all the manual Labor?
answer B: The Blacks did all the work for the whites.
C. Did the Black workers earn good wages compared to the whites?
answer C: No, the blacks go very poor wages much less than the whites earned.
D. Who got the most benefit from Apartheid?
answer D: The whites were the people that got the most benefit from Apartheid.

8. How did the government create Apartheid?

A. Could black South Africans live anywhere they wanted?
answer A: No, the whites demanded that blacks can only own 8% of the country. the whites then passed a law saying black people could work in white areas but earn very low wages.
B. Explain passbooks.
answer B: Passbooks were what we consider passports today, but in South Africa they were used in a different then how we use them here. Passbooks mostly carried by blacks, with there name, address, photograph and their employment record. If the blacks were found without their passbook they were arrested.
C. What jobs were available for Black South Africans?
answer C: There were a lot of jobs for the blacks but they paid very low wages. Most of the blacks did manual labor type jobs like working in factories, mines, and on farms. Women and children were servants, or maids in whites homes.
D. What kind of education opportunities were available to blacks?
answer D: The type and quality of their education was very poor compared to the whites and they did not have many opportunities they mostly taught themselves.

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Research Questions part III
When did Apartheid Really begin?
answer: Apartheid started in the year of 1948 and ended in 1994.
Explain/Describe the 4 groups that South Africans were divided into under Apartheid.
answer: The different groups were Black, white, Colored and Asian. The white and black is what we knew about but the colored and Asian are not very popularly known.

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Research Questions part II
6. What is Apartheid?
A:Give a definition.
answer A: "The Legal system of South Africa in which the rights of nonwhites were greatly restricted."

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What happened in this country that compromised human rights?

--The Apartheid in South Africa was their government's attempt to segregate black citizens and create economic and political superiority of people with a European background. They made it legal to group people by their race and discriminate against them. Apartheid literally means separateness, and that's definately what happened. Black citizens rights were controlled in all aspects of their lives.

--The Apartheid started in 1948 when Daniel F. Malan became Prime Minister. He was a strong believer in white supremacy, so he introduced the Apartheid policy. Throughout the years until the 1980s new laws and policies were put in place that restricted blacks rights. Some jobs became "white only jobs" and people were not allowed to marry interracially. The two racial groups were not even supposed to interact.

--Black citizens were also forced to carry passbooks. These passbooks limitted where they could live, work, and travel, among other things. In 1960 a large group of black citizens refused to carry their passbooks. This caused the government to declare a state of emergency that lasted 156 days. Sixty-nine people were killed and 187 were wounded by the police. During states of emergency anyone could be arrested without a trial and over the years thousands died in custody from being tortured.

--As well as having to carry passbooks, black citizens were forced to make their homes in small shacks and had very poor living conditions. There were over four times the number of black citizens in South Africa, but they were forced to live on only 13% of the land. They made much less money than white citizens and there was an insufficient number of doctors for their population. In addition to their houses being extremely small, they were also packed very tightly.

--In the 1960s the government carried out their plans for a "Grand Apartheid." The government's goal for this plan was to make territorial separation and police repression in South Africa even more radical. Many more laws that supported the segregation and degradation of the black community were passed. These laws also began to be more strictly enforced by the police. Blacks' rights were definitely being compromised.

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This is a beach that had been designated for only people of European descent. The sign explains that it is a law that black citizens could not use this beach.

This picture shows that blacks had to carry passbooks that determined where they could live and work, among other things.

The black citizens in South Africa had extremely poor living conditions. There houses were tiny and very packed together.

This is a child that died because of the poor living conditions, lack of food and poverty.

This is an example of the unequal treatment of the majority of the population.

Nelson Mandela was a leader in support of black equality. He was arrested in 1962 and finally released in 1990.

Research Queatons

1. Where is South Africa?

A: Give its latitude and longitude.

answer A: South Africa is South 30 degrees and 25 degrees East

B:Give its relative location.

answer B: South Africa is south of countries Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. There are also two countries that are inside south Africa. They are Lesotho and Swaziland.

A vivid commentary on what was happening in south africa.

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This picture shows a large riot that was created because of the black segregation hate crimes. Also this looks like the cops are all white beating down black africans.

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Apartheid in South Africa


Apartheid means “apartness”. This was a policy in South Africa that allowed racial segregation. This law was practiced in South Africa before 1948, when the National party officially gave it the name Apartheid. During this time the minority of whites controlled the non-white majority. It was legal to discriminate policies and ecologically against non-whites. Before the 1960’s many laws have been created to segregate whites and non-whites. The population registration act of 1950 put all South Africans into categories. The categories are Banta (all black) colored (mixed religion) or white. The forth category was added later. It was Asian witch was mostly Indian and Pakistani. The beginning of the apartheid goes all the way back to the Boer wars in the early 1800’s. The Boers Dutch thought they were chosen by god and they should hate over blacks in Africa. Eventually the British became involved and also put themselves higher than black Africans.

During the 1960’s, 1970s, 1980’s, the government created a rule of ‘Relocation’ to force people to move to their ‘group areas’. By ‘group areas’ it means race and color. It is said that three and a half million people were forced to relocate during this time. This compares to the Nuremburg laws because the Jews were forced to move out of their homes as well. The people forced to move were people on white owned farms and families of black workers. The government tried to separate all of the non-whites from the whites just as the Germans forced the Jews to be separated from the rest of the people and live in ghettos just as the blacks were forced to live in ‘homelands’. Just as the Nuremberg laws stripped the Jews of their rights the non-whites were also stripped of their rights. In South Africa the government stripped them of their right6s with the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act. This act allowed the government to provide different levels of amenities for the different races. The restrictions were not only social but also extremely enforced by the law.


During Apartheid in South Africa, the blacks, “colored”, and the Asians were separated from the whites because they were not of European descent. The people of European descent in South Africa didn’t want any other race voting, using the same buildings, and going to the same schools as them. This was all because of the 1948 elections, where the national party campaigned on apartheid. People started to have to give up things like miscegenation, and people were classified by race. “Colored” in South Africa barely had any voting rights to start off, so it was very tough for them when they had none. All of this happened just because there were many people in South Africa that were not of European descent.

Apartheid in South Africa lasted for 20 years. Apartheid was “immune” to economics and politics. Growth rates were good during the 1960’s and inflation was not bad. Living standards for whites rose dramatically and African living standards remain depressed. A big failure in apartheid was that cities had slowed down, it had not been stopped. Economic integration was continuing manly because of government politics. The government increased the development of manufacturing and the coil industry. The result was a growing need for Africans as workers and as customers. Ever in the beging 1970’s problems were increasing and it took another 20 years before it unraveled.

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APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA

What Does Apartheid Mean?

Apartheid literally means "seperatness". It is a system that seperats people accourding to their race. In South Africa, the government took away the human and political rights of everyone who wasnt of white skin color.

What Happened in this Country that Compromised Human Rights?

In South Africa, after the new government of the Afrikannar National Party won the elections, they wanted wanted to have complete control of the economic and social system of South Africa. As a result, they wanted people of white skin color be superior to the people of any other color. This is how the segregation first began in 1948.

Who Was Involved?

After the elections of 1948, the National Party campaigned its policy of Apartheid. They won the elections against the Smuts' United Party. Soon after, the National Party joined the Afrikaner National Party. They were soon officially called the Afrikaner National Party. The leader of this new government was Daniel Francois Malan. They quickly began enforcing the laws of Apartheid, in 1950.

What Laws were Enforced?

The first law that was created for Apartheid was called the Group Areas Act in 1950. It was created to help divide South Africa into racial groups. The Seperate Amenities act of 1953 created seperate busses, schools, beaches, and etc for whites and minorities. The laws that already existed, such as the law that forced blacks and colourds to carry around identification cards, was enforced even more. These passbooks prevented coloreds to live or even visit "white towns". In addition, in 1948, a law was creating, forbidding coloreds to get married to whites.

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Apartheid Signs

These are examples of signs

used during apartheid to seperate the races.

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The Definition of Apartheid

Apartheid, literally meaning "separateness" in Afrikaans, was, and still is a system of racial segregation. It was formed in order to maintain European descendant hierarchy in the world. It followed the end of World War II.

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Apartheid in South Africa

The black race protests Apartheid in South Africa. They are protesting against white minority rule.

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Apartheid in South Africa

This picture shows how the black race was required to carry pass books containing fingerprints, photo and information on access to non-black areas.

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