During 1948 until 1991, the majority of the South African population suffered from tortures, human rights violation and social and cultural racism problems. At the moment, the total population of South Africa was twenty nine million people and only around four or five million had rights and lived in good conditions; of course these four to five million people were whites, who where the ones that had power over black population and tortured them.
Due to this era and previous ones who influenced apartheid to exist, social and cultural problems developed within South African society, that are still present today but with less intensity.
Gail Hovey, the research director of the African Fund in New York, focused on the human right violation that occurred during Apartheid in 1983. It is apparent that with the brutal repression and social segregation that this population lived was a violation of human rights; even though, sometimes we do not perceive all the many aspects and privileges that were violated, and nowadays is just common sense to us. Regarding the political aspects, the right to …show more content…
During 1933 when Hitler got into the power of Germany, there was a connection being established between Afrikaners and social racism groups in South Africa. Meanwhile apartheid was happening, many jews and non jews people living in Africa said and remembered the holocaust, because there was some aspects that were similar. The main similarity to the Adolf Hitler ideology was the racist ideas that developed social problems, this were similar to the racist ideas that German people had against Jews; other obvious influence of the holocaust on apartheid was during the Sharpeville massacre were repression was hard and resistance was
Due to this era and previous ones who influenced apartheid to exist, social and cultural problems developed within South African society, that are still present today but with less intensity.
Gail Hovey, the research director of the African Fund in New York, focused on the human right violation that occurred during Apartheid in 1983. It is apparent that with the brutal repression and social segregation that this population lived was a violation of human rights; even though, sometimes we do not perceive all the many aspects and privileges that were violated, and nowadays is just common sense to us. Regarding the political aspects, the right to …show more content…
During 1933 when Hitler got into the power of Germany, there was a connection being established between Afrikaners and social racism groups in South Africa. Meanwhile apartheid was happening, many jews and non jews people living in Africa said and remembered the holocaust, because there was some aspects that were similar. The main similarity to the Adolf Hitler ideology was the racist ideas that developed social problems, this were similar to the racist ideas that German people had against Jews; other obvious influence of the holocaust on apartheid was during the Sharpeville massacre were repression was hard and resistance was