The way apartheid is made into a more distinct era rather than just generalizing it into racism and segregation that the world was already experiencing at the time was the way the Nationalist Party, created in 1948, formalised each law. There were precursors to apartheid being put into place starting around 1884 limiting the areas of land in which blacks could own, but the major legislation was created by the Nationalist Party once apartheid was created. The National Party wanted to create a complete segregation from whites and nonwhites, but between the categories of nonwhites. Apartheid went in steps of finalizing each law. With every new law came more rights revoked from the nonwhites in South …show more content…
Police brutality was a normal everyday occurrence where most people would just accept that fact and move on with their day. An account given by a man named Mabeka recalls at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa saying, “They assaulted me with fists; they kicked me, and I fell on the ground, They didn 't ask me anything; they didn 't tell me what do they -- what did they want." A man attacked without any reason spent two months in prison away from his family. He was only one of thousands of stories.When The Black South Africans started demanding their rights back. The police violence only became worse. The Social norm was just as strong as it ever was for the National Party, but now the Blacks wanted their rights back. They didn 't want to all be generalized into nonwhites and stipped of their historical roots. At a peaceful march in 1977 John Biyase recollects, “[Police trapping us marchers and] they just hit everybody, there was blood, cries. I remember we were shouting, 'Peace! Peace! Peace!” (Pearson and Cohen). Their movement had started to be heard from people around the world. Steven Mandela 's story of being imprisoned and impoverished was catching ground worldwide. In South Africa, however, being in poverty was still a