South African Apartheid Research Paper

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Apartheid originated from the Dutch word that means separation. Separation here means separation of the Dutch people (white) with a native African (black). Apartheid later grown into a political policy and become an official South African Government which consists of programs and regulations that aim to preserve racial segregation. Structurally, Apartheid was a policy to maintain the dominance of the white minority over the majority of non-white through community arrangements in the field of social and cultural, political, military and economic. This policy applies in 1948. At that time South Africa was divided into three main racial groups: a. White (English or Dutch) b. Black (African) c. Colored …show more content…
The arrival of English cause "Boer war" between English and Dutch. English beat Dutch, so that the Southern African region became a English possession. Finally, English became the ruler of Southern Africa. With the victory of English, many English people who come to Southern Africa.
In 1910 the second Boer War ended and English managed to unite the Southern African region in the Union of South Africa and became a republic, led by President Hendrik Verwoerd. Verwoerd that managed to make a policy to separate the majority of white people and black majority actually even lead to discrimination between the two. Before implemented, Political Apartheid has actually been carried out, the things that describe Apartheid:
• Native Land Act in 1913 that prohibits Blacks buy land outside the area that has been provided for them.
• Immorality Act 1927 that prohibits the mixing of white with black or other colored skin.
Verwoerd replaced by Pieter Botha in 1976 he announced that homelands formed intended to be an autonomous state. But anyone can understand easily that Political Apartheid conducting separator construction of residential areas is to divide the unity of South Africa, while securing the white people government in that
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