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"Apartheid" was a low or policy once in South Africa circulated by the White minority people for their own purpose and because of which the African people had suffered a lot. After immense struggle and suffering the African people became free from it.
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A Brief about the termApartheid
Name: Riddhi JaniRoll No: 23Paper: 11, The Postcolonial LiteratureSemester: 3rd
Submitted To: Department of English,M. K. Bhavnagar University
“Apartheid”
• ‘Apartheid’ is the name of the policy, that had started after 1948 by Nationalist Government.
• ‘Policy of separate development’
• Under the colonization of South Africa white people had used this policy for their own benefit and purpose.
• Under this policy many Black people were divided by their race. And this Act circulated many other acts such as:
• Population Registration Act• The Mixed Amenities Act• The Group Areas Act• The Immorality Act
• The Establishment of Bantustans
• The establishment of Bantustans:
• It was done for resolution of racial tensions, but it became so called aim.
• White was minority, and possessed most of the land of southern Africa.
• White people kept the land and laborers under their possession.
The Group Area Act
• Development of racially segregated township.
• Under this act Black, colored people and Indians were forced to leave the urban areas.
Mixed Amenities Act
• Social segregation act
• Under this act Black and colored people were not allowed in public places and facilities.
• In this way White people exercised their supremacy over Black people.
Population Registration Act and Pass Laws
• Registration of all people by racial groups.
• Under Pass Laws- non-whites had to carry a pass.
• Without work permit they were restricted to enter in whites’ areas.
The Immorality Act
• It is a law against ‘miscegenation’.
• This is also a so called immorality act that was made to preserve ‘racial purity’
• Reclassification of individuals by the government.
• This reclassification was led by the White hegemonic views.
• This inhuman policy was run almost for 46 years in South Africa.
• Ultimately in1994, after long struggle and protest this system was banned.
• Frederik Willem De Klerk was the last president under Apartheid. And Nelson Mandela was the first after banning of it.
• Both won Nobel Peace Prize.
• Now, ‘Apartheid’ is not limited to South Africa.
• "Between the anvil of united mass action and the hammer of the armed struggle we shall crush apartheid and white minority racist rule."
-Nelson Mandela - June 1980
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