Effects of Apartheid

The Civil War was a powerful war, where change was forced among everyone. As we learned about the effects of the Civil War, we also found a connection of that to the Apartheid in South Africa. This event, like the Civil War was extremely frustrating to make change occur, but eventually makes its way by coming to a resolve.

Apartheid, unlike the Civil War was a reform that lasted for 40 years. The colonization by the British and Dutch started such reform. The purpose of the reform was to force segregation between white South Africans, and black South Africans. Though in the end, the black South Africans would be highly discriminated to the point of peaceful protest to remove this reform. The white South Africans would show no mercy in destroying this protest.

The sole purpose of the Apartheid was to segregate the two races. This would mean that the races would have separate beaches, buses, hospitals and schools amongst other things. The blacks were not allowed to travel out of the area freely, only with permission cards. Blacks were often crammed in small towns around the country controlled by their own small government. Living conditions were often very unsustainable, as the Apartheid kept segregation in a tight divide.

The Apartheid was a serious problem in the eyes of the black South Africans. Blacks began to protest for the end of Apartheid, but only peacefully. The whites, angry from such protest would answer in violence, beating and even killing blacks to scare them to stop protesting. Though situations were risky for the blacks, they still protested with strong spirit and willpower, as well as not answering with violence. A protester icon named Nelson Mandela led the protests with strong force. This extremely damaged the white’s look, as they only answered with violence.

Even when there was strong protesting, the Apartheid officially ended 40 years after it began. When the reform was removed, Nelson Mandela becomes the president of the country, as well as rewriting their Constitution. Such confidence of the protesting was phenomenal. In the end, every South African gained full privileges and lived peacefully with each other.