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Apartheid- (do this like it’s 1993, the day that apartheid is ending and you’re looking back talking about it’s history) It’s interesting to think about how for many years Africans were taken from their homeland and forced into slavery in the United States. Then after years of fighting for freedom and later, equality and achieving these goals, we come to realize that similar problems have taken place in Africa even years after we’ve evolved. During the general election of 1948 in South Africa Apartheid became an official policy and lasted until 1993. Apartheid, meaning apartness, was a type of legal segregation enforced by the National Party government of South Africa. Everyone was separated into a category, “black”, “white”, “colored” (mixed, not completely black), or “Indian”. “Whites” were the ruling minority. Those segregated against were deprived of citizenship, education, medical care and the services they did receive were inferior to those of the “whites”. Ten ethnically determined “homelands” were established in which people were sorted according to the tribes they had originated from. South Africans were legally required to carry around passports and they were unable to leave their designated region without it. Other laws under Apartheid included, the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages, the Immortality Amendment (whites couldn’t have sexual relations with “black” South Africans), the Prevention of Illegal-Squatting, etc. Apartheid created internal resistance, violence and trade embargos (the end of trading and commerce with a country). Nelson Mandela was one famous anti-apartheid activist. On March 28, 1960 he burnt his “pass” (passport). He later went to prison for 27 years for trying to overthrow the government. In 1990 President Frederik Willem de Klerk began negotiations to end apartheid. This culminated with the 1994 elections that ended apartheid in South Africa forever.

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