Gone are all the old Apartheid laws, the prohibitions and banning’s, the power to arrest anyone without giving them trial- no more inequality or suppression. There were no “whites only” signs in the communal parks, or at the beaches or any other public venues. The “legal” residential segregation has been terminated. Elections were free, schools have been enhanced and were no longer racially separated. Today we find far more blacks with university level education and professional careers than that of the Apartheid era (Saniei, 2015). The cabinets in the Apartheid era were all white, today we find the cabinet filled with Blacks, English and Afrikaans speaking Whites, Indians and Jewish members. South Africa can no longer be seen as a political
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Twenty years after apartheid, the distribution of the country 's wealth remains unjust. Nearly half of the population, whom are mostly black, lead poverty-stricken lives (Saniei, 2015). The nation is governed by an overbearing and dominating elite whom acts as if the state is its personal property. The media is silenced by a draconian media law and our president 's private residence has been profligately refurbished at the expense of the nation’s taxpayer (Saniei, 2015).
Apartheid has been eliminated by law, but whites and blacks still live side by side, and not as one community. There are still "black" and "white" residential areas, "black" and "white" churches, and "black" and "white" restaurants. The minute the international media write about Southern Africa, there is the nearly inevitable reference to the country’s "fading rainbow" and its experiment in multi-ethnic democracy (Saniei, 2015).
Although the twentieth anniversary of the termination of apartheid is being celebrated, one can say that the party is over. Nelson Mandela, who had the ability to inspire individuals abroad and at home with his optimistic vision of hope, is sadly no more. The initial enthusiasm with which our people sought to turn a racist and discriminating dictatorship into a state in which all could live in prosperity and peace overnight has …show more content…
Our nation and its population of several different ethnic or/and racial groups has accomplished a lot of which it can be proud. It is incredible that a nation with such a volatile past – it actually stood on the brink of a civil war after apartheid ended - has not been consumed or overwhelmed by violence. Southern Africa sets standards in the demeanour of its domestic affairs, regardless of the shortcomings found in the political class.
Over the last twenty years, our country’s “new” generation has grown up with a determined attitude towards the involvement of shaping South Africa future. For the youth of South Africa, the barriers between whites and blacks, which dominated life about eighty years ago in Southern Africa, are disappearing (Saniei, 2015). In Cape Town or Johannesburg, individuals of every skin colour socialize and interact with one another. Friendships between whites and blacks are not uncommon, nor are interracial
Twenty years after apartheid, the distribution of the country 's wealth remains unjust. Nearly half of the population, whom are mostly black, lead poverty-stricken lives (Saniei, 2015). The nation is governed by an overbearing and dominating elite whom acts as if the state is its personal property. The media is silenced by a draconian media law and our president 's private residence has been profligately refurbished at the expense of the nation’s taxpayer (Saniei, 2015).
Apartheid has been eliminated by law, but whites and blacks still live side by side, and not as one community. There are still "black" and "white" residential areas, "black" and "white" churches, and "black" and "white" restaurants. The minute the international media write about Southern Africa, there is the nearly inevitable reference to the country’s "fading rainbow" and its experiment in multi-ethnic democracy (Saniei, 2015).
Although the twentieth anniversary of the termination of apartheid is being celebrated, one can say that the party is over. Nelson Mandela, who had the ability to inspire individuals abroad and at home with his optimistic vision of hope, is sadly no more. The initial enthusiasm with which our people sought to turn a racist and discriminating dictatorship into a state in which all could live in prosperity and peace overnight has …show more content…
Our nation and its population of several different ethnic or/and racial groups has accomplished a lot of which it can be proud. It is incredible that a nation with such a volatile past – it actually stood on the brink of a civil war after apartheid ended - has not been consumed or overwhelmed by violence. Southern Africa sets standards in the demeanour of its domestic affairs, regardless of the shortcomings found in the political class.
Over the last twenty years, our country’s “new” generation has grown up with a determined attitude towards the involvement of shaping South Africa future. For the youth of South Africa, the barriers between whites and blacks, which dominated life about eighty years ago in Southern Africa, are disappearing (Saniei, 2015). In Cape Town or Johannesburg, individuals of every skin colour socialize and interact with one another. Friendships between whites and blacks are not uncommon, nor are interracial