South Africa Research Paper

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Introduction

I have chosen to write about South Africa before, during and after the apartheid era. I'll try to explain why it was that it was in South Africa and why it could proceed so incredibly long. I'll also write about the struggle the black ran for a just society and how the whites responded to peaceful demonstrations with live ammunition. I have mostly used the Internet when I looked for sources and there was plenty of facts. I have written about apartheid that I must tell you what can happen if you just let a kind of people govern a country

Colonization

Colony of South Africa began in the mid-1600s, when the Dutch wanted to build a trading station where ships en route to India was able to get resupply. Europeans often used the black people as slaves but they also imported slaves from Malaysia and Africa's west coast. The descendants of the slaves were called colored. In the late 1700s, it took England over the colony but lost it shortly there after, but in 1806 they took it back again. The relationship between England and the Dutch descendants of the Boers or African Andes as they are also called was very tense and eventually grew tired of the Boers in the English control they wandered why north where they fought
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The black leaders did not like discriminat the ANC who appeared for the blacks' rights. In 1948 the National Party won the South African election with a very racist party programs. The blacks had said do not vote for the white felt they were unable to control their own country. The white government began construct a total segregated infrastructure where whites and blacks could not even sit next to each other on a park bench there were different entrances to public buildings for a white one for

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