{"id":767,"date":"2013-10-03T14:28:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T13:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2020-05-21T21:38:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T20:38:54","slug":"south-african-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/south-african-apartheid\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Apartheid: The Era Of Racial Abuse And Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"
Apartheid,\u00a0an Afrikaans<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>word meaning “the state of being apart”, was a system of racial segregation<\/a> in South Africa<\/a> enforced through legislation by the National Party<\/a> (NP) governments, the ruling party from 1948 to 1994. Most human beings who are more than two decades old must have heard of the term and the experiences of Apartheid or South African Apartheid as it is popularly called. The term was coined from a system of racial segregation and colour coding which was initiated and practised by the South African government or South African apartheid regime as it’s popularly called in the last half 20th century.<\/p>\n The Dutch government through legislation came up with laws that prohibited the mixing of whites and non-white South Africans. The Apartheid laws became effective from 1948 and for the next 50 years, were practised and adhered to.\u00a0Resistance to apartheid within South Africa took many forms over the years, from non-violent demonstrations, protests, and strikes to political action and eventually to armed resistance before it was eventually abolished.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The purpose of these South African Apartheid laws was to force the black community not to mingle with the ‘superior\u2019 whites. This ensured that they had to live in separate neighbourhoods from the whites, use separate public facilities in that they had to use separate public transport, medical care, and public beaches. There were jobs socially labelled as ‘whites-only\u2019 and social practices like inter-marriage between the two groups were strictly prohibited. The Dutch settlers who practiced farming mainly, saw their land as God-given and never saw the need not to rule themselves and depended on blacks as their source of labour. This facilitated the view that they were socially not equal. An Asian minority (mostly Indians) and people of mixed races called ‘Coloureds\u2019 were also caught in this conflict of South African apartheid.<\/p>\n How Black People Were Treated with Inequality:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n At the time that South African Apartheid started, the parliament of the country consisted of Whites. It can be said that it was an all-white\u2019 government, though in early 1970 a motion was passed in parliament that prohibited the representation of non-white persons in the government. This made the white parliament have superiority politically. The blacks were deprived of equality and most services were inferior to those of whites including education and basic social amenities like shelter.<\/p>\n From the enactment of the South African apartheid law there were many uprisings in the country, though they started small they eventually turned to fully fledged protests which spread across the whole country. The government tried to shut them down by tough action. The military was used to quell these protests, the political opposition was banned and state-owned organizations stamped people with repression and violence. Police used brutal force and would let their dogs on protestors which would bite them mercilessly while the police descended on them with crude weapons. Many anti-government leaders were imprisoned because all were anti-apartheid. Blacks were denied citizenship and were resettled to designations pointed out by the government. One such place is Soweto where blacks were clustered together in poor living conditions.<\/p>\nSouth African Apartheid – What You Need To Know<\/h2>\n
The Emergence of Anti-Government Uprising and Protests<\/h3>\n
How Black Women Were Treated<\/h3>\n