South African Apartheid

Apartheid in South Africa : the Last Grimace of Colonialism

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April 16 , 2007

Many years South Africa was a place where the apartheid in its very extreme form existed . The apartheid system in South Africa was a conscious system of social which was formed after the Nationalist Party won the election in 1948 , and was explicitly targeting at maintenance of white supremacy . Despite the modernization and industrialization processes occurring there , South Africa demonstrates the persistence of racial inequality

The basic features of apartheid

have been defined in many works and studies (Fredrickson , 2002 , Welsh , 1998 . Its starting point was the election of 1948 , when the Nationalist Party (NP ) swept to power in South Africa . After that the series of laws were passed by a parliament which consisted of the representatives of white ' population (10 of the at birth into a racial category , like white , Asian , Colored , or African The Coloreds ' - a substantial population group of mixed origin that had developed in the Western Cape out of the interaction of Europeans East Asians , Khoikhoi ( Hottentots , and black Africans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - were substantially Afrikaans in language and culture . But during the apartheid era they were increasingly segregated and discriminated against (Fredrickson , 2002 br

.4 ) Racial status , thus , defined the main legal and political rights The new policy was summed up in the word apartheid ' or apartness For NP race purists , segregation was judged to be undermining white supremacy . The ultimate aim was to make South Africa a white man 's country ' built on black helots (Bunting , 1964

Apartheid represented a qualitatively new stage to entrench and guarantee white rule and black exploitation and oppression . In 1913 the principle of territorial segregation had been introduced and Africans could claim permanent residence in the reserves , which constituted 13 percent of South Africa . The Group Areas Act of 1952 extended this principle to segregate Colored and Indian areas as well (Cell , 1982 . It empowered the executive to declare areas reserved for particular races for residential purposes . The Suppression of Communism Act empowered the prime minister to draw up a list of persons declared to be Communists and to forbid any such person to be a Member of Parliament , a provincial council , or any public organization . The governor-general could also prohibit any publication suspected as Communist . Any organization declared to be Communist could be banned and there would be no right to appeal against a proclamation declaring such an organization unlawful Mixed marriages and carnal intercourse between white and black were made illegal

Apartheid was racism unbridled and unrestrained . It was blatant and terrorist at home and abroad . It made racism and anticommunism the main principles of state policy . The NP gave the policy of white domination and black subordination and exploitability a sense of finality . At the heart of black exploitation and oppression were the pass laws , dating back to the early nineteenth century , designed to control and direct African labor to wherever it...